Quotes About Intelligence

Woman: Did you know that women are smarter than men? Man: No, I didn't. Woman: See what I mean?

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots—" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

Shakespeare knew too much.

Lirael didn't answer either question. She just looked at him, waiting for him to talk. He met her gaze at first, then faltered and looked away. There was something unnerving about her eyes. A toughness he had never seen in the young women he knew from the debutante parties in Corvere. It was partly this that made him talk, and partly a desire to impress her with his knowledge and intelligence.

I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy level. But, if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?

She's the most beautiful and smart woman I've ever met," he liked to tell his friends after they had stopped loving each other.

I'm a genius! Geniuses don't NEED medication!

La ciencia es la estética de la inteligencia.

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

I am not a talking vegetable, as you should be able to see. Even if a planet were to follow the one evolutionary way, out of some many millions, that leads to intelligence, it is impossible that it should duplicate in wood and leaf the form of a human being. The same thing might be said of stones, yet there are statues.

All time exists. That is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind us? In sleep the mind is encircled by its time, which is why we so often hear the voices of the dead there, and receive intelligence of things to come.

De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos?

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.

The greatest Scholars are not the wisest men,' as once unto the wolf thus spoke the mare. Of all their artifice, I account not a whit.

A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost unemployable.

White-collar professionals also use prescription drugs such as Provigil, Ritalin, and Adderall to boost their intelligence and attentiveness.

The middle class, to which the civil servants belong, has a political consciousness and is the most conspicuously educated class. For this reason, it is the mainstay of the state as far as integrity and intelligence are concerned. Consequently, the level of a state which has no middle class cannot be high.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.