Quotes About Intelligence

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

L'homme ne possède pas son intelligence, son intelligence est en visite chez lui.

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches "intellectual isolation".

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of talents. Great demographic densities are the breeding grounds of mediocrity.

The ability to consume pornography is the distinctive characteristic of the imbecile.

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Some saw cryptography as a great technological equalizer, a mathematical tool that would put the lowliest privacy-seeking individual on the same footing as the greatest national intelligence agencies.

One interesting view of the market knowledge challenge has been described as raising a company's 'market IQ'.

A blah is a terrible thing to waste!

You can be pretty, and have a boyfriend, and still be smart, all at the same time. You don't always have to choose.

Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty times more intelligent than a man in order to inspire, if not love, at least respect.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.