3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Whither is intelligence? I will tell you. We have killed it – you and I.

Here the professor fell silent and looked again at the camera crew. They, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. In anguish, the professor threw his tiki torch to the ground, where it broke into several pieces and went out. “I have come too early, my time is not yet. They have not realized that intelligence is dead, and yet they have done it themselves.

Hemingway said that happiness in intelligent people was rare but shit even contentment amongst the mediocre is hard to fathom.

Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Intelligence is too complex and multifaceted a thing to reduce to any single dimension.

A huge part of culture is the painting of a particular degree or kind of foolishness as wisdom, by at least the vast majority of a particular group of fools … or mostly fools.

English is a language, not a measure of intelligence. (Howard Gardner would argue the otherwise.) Filipino/Tagalog is a language, not a measure of patriotism.

Direct engagement, which can be harsh and emotionally draining, simply doesn't happen that much on the technical side of intelligence, and almost never in computing. There is a depersonalization of experience fostered by the distance of a screen. Peering at life through a window can ultimately abstract us from our actions and limit any meaningful confrontation with their consequences.

Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.