Intelligence Quotes

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelli...

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more yo...

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wis...

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be e...

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To...

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal wh...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it...

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inv...

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of...

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was t...

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon....

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not av...

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordi...

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that wha...

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bibl...

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be pr...

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that come...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the sec...

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form th...

Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravag...

The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts,...

Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one e...

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions...

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of sligh...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educa...

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of pla...

with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devot...

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, t...

Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions ar...

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences inc...

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically...

Our difficulties in understanding or effectuatingcommunication with other animals may arise from our...

It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, s...

When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovat...

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear th...

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuab...

The time scale for evolutionary or genetic change is very long. A characteristic period for the emer...

Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required ...

Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example...

In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invente...

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps...

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only ...

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I n...

He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing ...

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of id...

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindl...

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Inte...

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this tim...

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out...

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for m...

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTI...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Hi...

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta ...