Quotes about Intelligence
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
- Stephen Hawking
Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.
- Stephen Jay Gould
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
- Stephen Jay Gould
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.
- Stephen Jay Gould
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
- Steve Jobs
Look, the American people are smart.
- John Kennedy
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
- Paul Graham
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
- Ben Carson
Being the smartest person in the room I think can be very lonely.
- Lindsey Morgan
Being the smartest person in the room I think can be very lonely.
- Lindsey Morgan
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
- Elbert Hubbard