Quotes about High Intelligence

Steven Pinker

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Ernst Mayr

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Dee Snider

Sometimes, I'm too smart for my own good.

David Lee Roth

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

Isadora Duncan

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

Ernst Mayr

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

Howard Gardner

I make fun of Mensa. I don't know a great deal about Mensa - that's the high IQ group - but I say, 'To get into Mensa, you have to have a high IQ, and once you get in, you spend your time congratulating people who are in Mensa with you.' To me that's a pretty stupid way to spend your life.

Sylvia Plath

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

Sydney J. Harris

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sidney W. Souers

There is an urgent need to develop the highest possible intelligence on the USSR in the shortest possible time.

At the time the USSR was our ally. Neither the military or the state department focused in gaining intelligence on any ally and J. Edgar Hoover had for years focused on intelligence about communists in the United States but not in Russia and the rest of the world. These other agencies treated Souers with disdain or ignored him, but this memo showed the importance of Truman’s idea of having an independent intelligence agency to inform the President.

Matthew Goode

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Joe Dempsie

I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky... my dad had one when he was younger.

John Fowles

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

This view of intelligence is what makes many deeply religious people suspicious of intellectuals. However, while higher intelligence and educational attainment are somewhat correlated with atheism, many of the most brilliant people are religious—for example, Albert Einstein. Atheists include many who are not well educated or brilliant.

Stephen King

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

John Hodgman

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

Tom Baker

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Walter O'Brien

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

High Intelligence Quotes