intelligence Quotes

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.