Quotes about Intelligence

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

If a crystal ball gives God any advantage, then you've got a stupid God.

I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised.

Dear intelligent people of the world, don't get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now fucking stop torturing animals.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.