Intelligence Quotes

He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.

But most of all, what really attracted me to her was her manner. She laughed a lot, and it's easy to fall for someone who can find humor in any situation. She was also intelligent, well read, and well spoken, willing to listen and confident in her beliefs. And most of all, she was warm.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Brains are not everything.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I'm as thick as a plank.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.