Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

After all, Franklin [Delano Roosevelt] isn't very bright.

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.