Quotes About Intelligence

Don't get mad, get smart

Lack of knowledge is dangerous

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

What you are, all that you are, shows in everything about you—your honesty, your compassion, your courage, your intelligence, and most of all your love.

You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it—in the midst of the Love Depression we're in—does not deserve it.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

When our emotional intelligence is restricted, we often do not know what we really want, and can consequently struggle mightily with even the smallest decisions.

Grieving is the key process for reconnecting with our repressed emotional intelligence. Grieving reconnects us with our full complement of feelings. Grieving is necessary to help us release and work through our pain about the terrible losses of our childhoods. These losses are like deaths of parts of our selves, and grieving can often initiate their rebirth.

many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

Remedying this developmental arrest is essential because many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. —Scientist Emerson M. Pugh

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

When you praise for intelligence, kids get the message that being seen as smart is the name of the game. "Emphasizing effort gives a child a rare variable they can control," Dweck says. But "emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of a child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure." 18

Her eyes gleamed as bright with genius as any worthy man's

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.

I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.