Quotes About Intelligence

Small facts lead to great knowing,

My point is this. In each of us there is a mind we use for all our waking deeds. But there is another mind as well, a sleeping mind. It is so powerful that the sleeping mind of an eight-year-old can accomplish in one second what the waking minds of seven members of the Arcanum could not in fifteen minutes.

You needed money or brains to get into the university, the more of one you had, the less of the other you needed".

clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

Uma pessoa inteligente e insensata é uma das coisas mais assustadoras que há.

Sangre, helechos y hueso, qué lástima que las criaturas como tú no tengáis la inteligencia para apreciarme.

Graciousness is the luxury of the wise,

La sabiduría excluye la audacia.»

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

fewer wits than tits,

Denna lifted her glass in a salute. "To the gullibility of the well-educated.

Second, I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily brilliant.

your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

Good intelligence is crucial to winning a military campaign. Of course, as a rule, if those in charge of a military actually had good intelligence, there would be a lot less war.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

There is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or intellectual capacity or that there is any connection between the physical and mental characteristics of human beings.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and the tongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decides to open that mouth and speak.

No digo que sea malo. Es joven, simplemente. Demasiado literario, demasiado orgulloso de su propia inteligencia.

for her laugh wasn't the squealing, out-of-control noise of a child, he noted, but a succession of gut-deep, resonant guffaws—merry yaps, to be sure, but at the same time thoughtful, as if she understood why she was laughing, which made her laugh an intelligent laugh, a laugh that laughed at itself even as it laughed at what it was laughing at.