Quotes About Intelligence

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous.

How can a single human cell measuring 1/1,000 of an inch in diameter contain instructions within its DNA that would fill 1,000 books of 600 pages each? The more we learn about the workings of the body, the more we realize just how vast is the intelligence at work within it and how little we know.

Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar.

Une des conquêtes préliminaires dans l'étude du cerveau humain est de comprendre qu'une de ses supériorités sur l'ordinateur est de pouvoir travailler avec de l'insuffisant et du flou (...). Il faut reconnaître des phénomènes, comme liberté ou créativité, inexplicables hors du cadre complexe qui seul permet leur apparition. p50

Il y a l'intelligence artificielle, il y a aussi la connerie naturelle.

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.

You speak almost as well as a man. It will be a novelty to make love to a woman who seems to have a man's mind.

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had a great natural dignity, and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.

Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.

Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.

Of course he's good-he's too stupid to be bad

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_Stulti est dixisse, Non putaram_.

Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form

This would enable them to develop those noneconomic virtues—intelligence, unselfishness, courage, decency—which he loosely defined as "character." Character determined the worth of the individual, and "what is true of the individual is also true of the nation.

They never open their mouths," he complained of two House colleagues, "without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." Asked

Forming impressions of the CEO's character, intelligence, energy and trustworthiness can be gleaned using a variety of questioning techniques. Intellectual honesty can be tested by asking the CEO to pick out what he or she thinks is important. To unsettle the more promotional CEOs, we like to ask what is not working and wait to see whether they have given the matter much thought.

There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!