Quotes About Intelligence

The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

Somewhere around 2136, various lines of development had collided. What had once been servile Borderline Intelligences had jumped the tracks into genuine sentience. The luminously clever engines of Transgressive intelligence had been much too clever, much too willing to oblige. In an instant, humanity had found itself in possession of tools powerful enough to remake entire worlds, but equally capable of shattering them to dust.

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

She wanted him to become cleverer, so that she could become cleverer still.

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

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Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.