Quotes About Intelligence

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Do you even know the difference between a girder and a joist?' he asks pompously. 'Ah, well, yes,' answers the Irishman in his laconic way. 'Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

The wisdom of the Tath?gata is not to be measured by the yardstick of human intelligence, nor limited by the cravings of the human heart.

Saya sama sekali tidak suka dikontrakkan. Soalnya, tidak jelas keluarga macam apa yang akan tinggal. Kalau yang menghuni saya nanti amat sangat berengsek, tidak suka membaca cerita pendek, tidak berpengetahuan, tidak intelek, dan suka masak jengkol, apa saya bisa protes dan mengusirnya?

Saya tidak tahu Saudara siapa, tetapi saya sangat mengharapkan agar Saudara-lah yang nanti mengontrak saya. Saya suka kepada Saudara karena Saudara kadang-kadang membaca cerita pendek--oleh karena itu, tentunya melek huruf, sabar, cerdas, berpengetahuan luas, dan intelek, hanya saja tidak mampu membeli rumah.

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.

Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.