Intelligence

"Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction."

"The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves."

"Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence."

"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."

"The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident."

"Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills"

"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks."

"You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance."

"With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying."

"Oh Satan you're a wily one."

"Genius is independent of situation."

"Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing."

"He's one fry short of a Happy Meal."

"How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience."

"I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do. It was a tall, conical wizard's model, covered with chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas."

"Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it."

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

"Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty."