Quotes About Intelligence

To the people in Creede I am intelligent, suspiciously sophisticated and elitist to the point of being absurd. To the people at UC Davis I am quaint, a little slow on the uptake and far too earnest to even believe.

human spark plug, optimistic, intelligent, and energetic.

had been born knowing that if you held the proper measuring stick, animals would always test smarter than people, and nothing I've seen in my lifetime has disabused me of that notion. We may have more complicated language, opposable thumbs and this dangerous thing called reason, but any self-respecting llama or buffalo or spider knows enough not to destroy its own home.

Kriegler's assertion that the Germans had told London

Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job.

I'll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it's more than an elixir, it's nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.

well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you're got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi

W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you just read, your worldview--your understanding, your compassion for others, your ability to engage intelligently with others--has expanded a little. Books help us grow….

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

In close-up, Monty was absolutely riveting. One was practically absorbed into his eyes, which were clearly formidable and perhaps his best asset as an actor. Large, grey, infinitely expressive in his beautiful but rather deadpan face, they could register yearning, intelligence, and despair in quick succession

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

just because one is submissive doesn't make them stupid. My experience has suggested the opposite. We have a saying, 'Listen when the soft ones speak.'" Smith

Mercy is a smart cookie," Coyote told him (Adam). "Except when she is not.

Some people need to shut their mouths in order to use their brains

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," she said, hurt

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!