3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.

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

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.