Intelligence Quotes - Page 9

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Eroticize intelligence.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.