Quotes about Intelligence

“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”

“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”

“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”

“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”

“The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own.”

“The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'”

“If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.”

“An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.”

“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”

“They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.”

“A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.”

“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

“There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?”

“You have to be smart. The easy days are over.”

“If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”

“We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.”

“When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.”

“Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.”

“How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?”

“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.”

“Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.”