Quotes About Intelligence

They say the most intelligent people pay more attention when buying their boots than when choosing a lifelong companion.

You know," said Grover, "the only thing worse than a smart-assed lawyer is a dumb-assed lawyer.

What is effective for increasing motivation and the willingness to take on challenges is focusing praise on the child's effort, on what the child has done, not on an ability he can't control (such as intelligence) or on the final result (which he may not easily be able to replicate).

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

The most important use to which he had put his memory was that he had stuffed an unprecedented number of mathematical constants and equations into it. Most of us have very few mathematical constants in our mind, perhaps only the up-to-twelve-times multiplication table. Johnny had put in his mind layers and layers of algebraic verities. These were the explanation of his extraordinary powers of mental calculation.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Britain had an asset that became increasingly important as the war went on, the existence of which was only disclosed thirty years after the war ended (Churchill did not mention it in his history of the war). With the help of Polish intelligence, the British had acquired the basic German military coding machine, called Enigma.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung] of our intelligence by means of language.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Slaves were never allowed to talk to white people other than their masters or someone their masters knew, as they were afraid the white man might have the slave run away. The masters aimed to keep their slaves in ignorance and the ignorant slaves were all in favor of the Rebel army. Only the more intelligent were in favor of the Union army.

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.

Siva tvar sadržava ponajprije masno?u; u slu?aju pretjeranog mršavljenja mozak trpi posljedice. Što se doga?a u suprotnom slu?aju? Deblja li se i mozak ili jednostavno postane masniji? I ako je odgovor potvrdan, kako to utje?e na misli? Churchillova ili Hitchcockova inteligencija sigurno nije patila zbog pretilosti vlasnika, ali povla?enje tolike težine zasigurno na ovaj ili onaj na?in utje?e na psihu.

Ra?iunea ?i fantezia sunt religie - ra?iunea ?i inteligen?a, ?tiin??.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

An educated mind is an educated and save person

Onlara göre, durmadan kitap okudu?um -hat?rlad???ma göre çok okumazd?m do?rusu- ve misafirlerin yan?na ç?kmad???m -bu 'yan?na ç?kmak' deyimi beni ürpertirdi, içime bulant? verirdi- ve gereken yerde gereken kelimeyi bulamad???m için -bu nedenle bana aptal da derlerdi- anormaldim.

Aptal, o kadar?n? biz de anlad?k.

çevrendeki her ?eyi kesin çizgilerle ikiye ay?rd?n. (Bu bak?mdan da sana benzedi?imi itiraf etmeliyim.) Dünyada yaln?z güzellerle çirkinler vard?, bir insan ya ak?ll?yd? ya da aptal, senin gibi ba??n? dik tutmas?n? bilemeyen bütün insanlar dalkavuktu; sana benzemeyen kibar davran??l? insanlar? da züppelikle suçlard?n.

?nsan beyninin böyle farkl? güçte olmas?, birinin yazd???n?, ötekinin okuyacak kadar bile bir zekâya sahip olmamas? çok üzücü.

Comme la plupart des hommes peu intelligents et de muscles développés, il est d'une grande timidité.

Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.