Intelligence Quotes

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, s...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. “Your love for him has damaged your senses.”“An...

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace...

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to b...

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't dis...

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,...

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine wher...

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleano...

Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space...

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run ma...

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your st...

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence t...

The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a school...

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...

In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you in...

Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding,...

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chim...

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life i...

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate ...

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order o...

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but...

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But...

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If...

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intel...

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be ha...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You ...

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more...

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literatu...

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Eart...

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day ...

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look mor...

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of i...

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long...

Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and peopl...

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

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get co...

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the r...

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is ...

[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information c...

[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer ...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it ...

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...

belief is the death of intelligence.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitativ...

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitativ...

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitativ...

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitativ...

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face ...

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligibl...

Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the int...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher conte...

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his l...

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort...

I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I ...

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of re...

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties ...

Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercise...

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to d...