Intelligence Quotes

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.