Quotes About Level Of Intelligence

#1. Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Bill Watterson

#2. There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and some problems move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Michael Ian Black

#4. [on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#5. Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence.

Tony Robbins

#6. At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

Timothy Leary

#7. I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Mehmet Oz

#8. Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.

Allen Newell

#9. Your level of intelligence is only as valuable as your ability to communicate it to someone else.

Richard Schultz

#10. If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. Nerds ... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

Tom Wolfe

#12. I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#13. Fucking beautiful," I whisper.
She smiles and then ducks her head. "I feel stupid."
"I barely know you, so I'm not about to argue with you over your level of intelligence, because you could very well be as dumb as a rock. But at least you're pretty.

Colleen Hoover

#14. What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

Mirra Komarovsky

#15. Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air.
The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.

Nikki Sixx

#16. Every religion is tailored down to the level of intelligence of the people embracing it and Islam takes the cake for being the most tailored religion.

Boris Zubry

#17. When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

Lynne Tillman

#18. Success is determined not by our level of intelligence; but by our life achievements and ability to help others.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#19. It needs only to be good enough, which in the case of our species meant a level of intelligence sufficient to enable us to outwit the competitors in our ecological niche

Ray Kurzweil

#20. The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

Robert Greene

#21. Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can
experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all
knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#22. When you argue with someone, you always argue at the level of the person with the lowest level of intelligence. You never argue up.

Spuds Crawford

#23. It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Christian Lous Lange

#24. Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Thomas Bangalter

#25. There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!

George Carlin

#26. If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence
is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

Bill Cosby

#27. The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Cofer Black

#28. Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#29. We need religion, government, and laws to force a level of control over our baser natures. I intend to strip away the disease that is intelligence, to rip away the deception that allows humanity to believe itself mightier and more deserving of this planet.

James Rollins

#30. Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

Scott Adams

#31. Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

David Blunkett

#32. History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.

Angelo Codevilla

#33. At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

Deepak Chopra

#34. I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Edward Norton

#35. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

Peter David

#36. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

David Hanson

#37. Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Warren Buffett

#38. Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Deepak Chopra

#39. The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Tucker Max

#40. The higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold "beliefs" of any kind.

Richard Dawkins

#41. I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.

Christine Ebersole

#42. But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. - MARVIN MINSKY

Ray Kurzweil

#43. Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.

Marcia Conner

#44. It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.

Richard Linklater

#45. Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders

John Yoo

#46. Being that all of my intelligence is wasted in the classroom, my common sense is at exactly level zero.

Kandi Steiner