Quotes About Intelligence

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

Good wits will jump.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Your wit makes others witty.

'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

I love Stephen Fry. His tweets are witty, poignant, and intelligent.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.