Intelligence Quotes

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.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, ...

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite direct...

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did...

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen...

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a ...

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the e...

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv...

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fo...

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence ...

I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Trave...

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, dan...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this worl...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always p...

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes a...

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when...

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty ...

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you ha...