Quotes about Intelligence

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.