Quotes About Intelligence

I've never known if it was my sensibility that was too much for my intelligence, or my intelligence that was too much for my sensibility. I've always been late, I'm not sure if for the former or for the latter, or perhaps for both, or perhaps it was the third thing that was late.

I have never forgotten that phrase of the biologist, Haeckel, whom I read in the infancy of my intelligence, at that age when one reads scientific publications and arguments against religion. The phrase goes more or less like this: the superior man (a Kant or a Goethe, I think he says) is farther removed from the common man than the common man is from the monkey.

Una sola cosa mi meraviglia più della stupidità con cui la maggior parte degli uomini vive la sua vita: l'intelligenza che c'è in questa stupidità.

El afán por comprender, para tantas almas nobles sustituye al de actuar, pertenece a la esfera de la sensibilidad. Sustituir la energía por la inteligencia, romper el eslabón entre la voluntad y la emoción, despojando de intereses todos los gestos de la vida material, es es lo que, una vez logrado, vale más que la vida, tan difícil de poseer por entero y triste de poseer parcialmente.

Accept din t?rie de caracter. M-am n?scut ÅŸi eu,ca toat? lumea,supus erorilor ÅŸi defectelor, Dar nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg prea mult, Nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg numai cu inteligenÅ£a, Nicicând defectului de a-i cere lumii Ceva care s? nu fie lume.

De resto, com que posso contar comigo? Uma acuidade horrível das sensações, e a compreensão profunda de estar sentindo... Uma inteligência aguda para me destruir, e um poder de sonho sôfrego de me entreter... Uma vontade morta e uma reflexão que a embala, como a' um filho vivo... Sim, croché...

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable.

It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

I think most feminists are very smart.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

I'm not sure I have the knowledge, the intelligence or the sensitivity to direct a 'Love Story' or a 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

Manute Bol was one of the guys who taught me to be bold. To be fierce. To speak intelligently, and speak like you belong.

I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

I think the best fighters are the smart guys. They do what they are good at. They're smart about what they do.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.