Quotes About Intelligence

There's the intelligent sort of love that makes an intelligent choice. That's the kind you're supposed to get married on. Then there's the kind that's anything but intelligent, that's like a possession. And that's the one everybody really values." (Hard-Luck Stories)

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn't report her if she cut. They were happy not to have her there: her intelligence made her a problem. It demanded attention and rushed their lesson plans forward.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

E imagine que a dona Beasley sempre dizia que eu era a criança mais inteligente que ela já tinha ensinado! Mas eu agradeço a ela por uma coisa em particular que ela me ensinou, me mostrando como aprender por mim mesma, lendo e estudando e escrevendo claramente. E por ter mantido dentro de mim de alguma forma vivo o desejo de saber.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor

Este clar c? femeile sunt mai deÅŸtepte decît b?rbaÅ£ii. GîndiÅ£i-v? — cel mai bun prieten al lor sînt diamantele; cel mai bun prieten al b?rbaÅ£ilor este cîinele.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out.- zach

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

The purely rational economic man is, indeed, close to being a social moron.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart. (From Jose Rizal's letter to his nephew Alfredo or Freding)

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,

The ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Battles may sometimes be won by the brave, but wars are always won by the clever.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already they scramble eagerly for the position of likeable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and can hence be everyone's friend.