3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

A truly intelligent race is not likely to be unfriendly.

Artificial intelligence will not destroy this planet, irresponsible human intelligence will.

Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defect. They're called women.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent, condemns one, in our society, to a dark and disillusioned life, a condition one ought to accept at an early age. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things – some sort of balancing of the scales offered by nature to those less favored among her children – no, it is a superfluous plaything that exists only to enhance the value of the jewel.Pg 47.

Mă cheamă la Comitetul executiv raional. — E ceva neobișnuit. Vă rog să ne înțelegeți, Slava Konstantinovna, nu știm pe cine să credem. Zeci de oameni de știință afirmă una, dumneavoastră, altceva. Ați auzit ceva despre celebra vrăjitoare Paraska? Ne-am hotărât s-o invităm la noi, ea se obligă ca pe perioada verii să reducă razele gama.