Quotes About Intelligence

Thank the Lord, Tucker's a corgi," Pewter, upset herself, blurted out. "Smart as a cat.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.

We don't hold with book-reading, Mr. Wormwood said. You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.

What a nice child she is, Miss Honey thought. I don't care what her father said about her, she seems very quiet and gentle to me. And not a bit stuck up in spite of her brilliance.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

Good strong hair,' he was fond of saying, 'means there's a good strong brain underneath.' 'Like Shakespeare,' Matilda had once said to him. 'Like who?' 'Shakespeare, Daddy.' 'Was he brainy?' 'Very, Daddy.' 'He had masses of hair, did he?' 'He was bald, Daddy.

Gli uomini non sono sempre così furbi come vorrebbero far credere. Te ne accorgerai quando sarai più grande, figlia mia.

over the years i have discovered a surprising but simple truth about young ladies and it is this: the more beautiful their faces, the less delicate their thoughts.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Behind the moustache there lived an inflamed and savage face with a deeply corrugated brow that indicated a very limited intelligence. 'Life is a puzzlement,' the corrugated brow seemed to be saying, 'and the world is a dangerous place. All men are enemies and small boys are insects that will turn and bite you if you don't get them first and squash them hard.

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;

He might love to read, but he was certainly no greasy grind.

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

in a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.

stupid races don't build spaceships!)