Quotes About Intelligence

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

Celui qui s'expose par ses propos n'est qu'un sot. (L'abîme)

Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat.

It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers – they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

Toxicity is often released through the tear ducts as part of the body's natural genius at flushing itself out. Casual use of antidepressants is unwise for just this reason—feeling the full extent of your sadness is sometimes the only way to heal it. In the absence of the feeling, you miss out on the healing. The body does not make distinctions among physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses. It is equipped with the natural intelligence to address them all.

How ironic. You spend your whole life resisting the notion that there's someone out there smarter than you are, and then all of a sudden you're so relieved to know it's true. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help.

Dowered with great historic names which they almost despise, they do their best to drag the memory of their ancient lineage into dishonour by vulgar passions, low tastes, and a scorn as well as lack of true intelligence. Let us not talk of them. The English aristocracy was once a magnificent tree, but its broad boughs are fallen,--lopped off and turned into saleable timber,--and there is but a decaying stump of it left.

She learned yet another critical fact, which is that those male animals have the good sense to interfere only with females in heat, but that men lack the sexual intelligence or instinct to leave their disinterested women alone.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

The mind is the greatest bomb. - The Lamb of God (essay)

How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short, how I would like to be loved in a way never earned so that I would never have to keep earning it or work for it

If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.

An intelligent, reasonable man in most cases has nothing to fear from women. You must beware of two things. Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress. Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.

I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge. It is something separate, a gift that some possess and others don't.

In individuals, as in society, high culture, sensibility and intelligence can, at times, coexist with the fanaticism of the torturer and the assassin. In the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. When religion and the state become confused, freedom irremediably disappears.

Trujillo lo premió con una sonrisa. Siempre sintió simpatía por Modesto, que, además de inteligente, era ponderado, justo, afable, sin dobleces. Sin embargo, su inteligencia no era controlable y aprovechable, como la de Cerebrito, el Constitucionalista Beodo o Balaguer.

Sería estúpido ignorar que entre los individuos hay inteligentes y tontos, diligentes o haraganes, inventivos o rutinarios y lerdos, estudiosos y perezosos, etcétera. Y sería injusto que en nombre de la «igualdad» todos recibieran el mismo salario pese a sus distintas aptitudes y méritos.

We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.

elegidos y dosificados según leyes precisas por la inteligencia del creador, alcanzan la vida propia de una verdad positiva. La supuesta frialdad flaubertiana para narrar las venturas y desventuras de los personajes era la actitud con que Achille-Cléophas examinaba, recetaba, amputaba, curaba o declaraba perdidos a sus pacientes. Pero

Son chispazos de humor que se agradecen, que revelan que en el interior de ese ser «podrido de literatura» había picardía, malicia, vida.

El genio artístico o literario, no es en ningún caso garantía de lucidez política.