Social Intelligence Quotes

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.