intelligence Quotes

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

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

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.

You're smarter than TV. So what?