Quotes About Intelligence

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

There is nothing so attractive in a woman as a mind thirsty after knowledge and capable of receiving it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. I know more about Raphael than all of you altogether.

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

L'intelligenza senza ambizione è come un uccello senza ali.

It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.

The key, Deschamps said, is to maintain self-control and to know when it's okay to foul and when you are "too far up the referee's nose" to get away with it. "It's something you feel. It's a feeling. It's a form of intelligence.

The creative power of the Third Logos, that which gives life to the creatures in the womb, that which makes life to spring forth out of the chaos, is potent and intelligent enough to bring the woman her precise, exact complement.

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

I respect your intelligence too much to construct a narrative that might convince you of a reality far from the truth." Mr.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category they will go in for, but go in for one of the three they must. It was hopeless to try and pass Charlotte off as either pretty or sweet. So she became clever as the only remaining alternative.

All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category they will go in for, but go in for one of the three they must.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.