Quotes About Intelligence

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Why are you so stubborn, you little fool? Some one talks business to you, and you hold up your nose. As if nobody in the world was cleverer than you!

Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. Critical thinking may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

It hadn't been love at first sight, but it was pretty damn close. He was so funny and charming and smart. All the books he'd read. All the stuff he knew.

I'd met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

Abraham Lincoln, said in 1838, when he and the United States were both very young, "Reason—cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason—must furnish all materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and laws.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

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.

writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.