Intelligence Quotes

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 ...

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is ru...

I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which m...

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise ...

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistak...

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to d...

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongl...

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passion...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest in...

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they un...

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded...

Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is ch...

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same t...

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate ...

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the w...

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-...

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks...

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of nai...

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already en...

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.