Intelligence Is Overrated Quotes

#1. Intelligence is overrated by any species that has it, and that's provable by the fact that all intelligent species are outlived by a factor of a hundred to one, if not a thousand to one, by nonintelligent species, who don't have the brains or perversity to destroy themselves or their environments.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#2. None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.

Jim C. Hines

#3. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.

James Rozoff

#4. A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

Rachel Vincent

#5. I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else.

Jennifer Lawrence

#6. Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

John Singer Sargent

#7. I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Franz Kafka

#8. What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

Adam Baldwin

#9. You cannot fix your gaze upon it!
Senses cannot record it.
No words describe it."

-Alia

Frank Herbert