Quotes About Intelligence

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

You know a fact that strikes one very forcibly as one grows older is that some people are intelligent and some are stupid.

A lot of brilliant people are terrible investors. The reason is that they don't have the ability to make decisions with limited information. By the time you get all the information, everyone else knows it, and you no longer have the edge.

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. ALBERT EINSTEIN

happiness, and trust he needed. "He who knows much about others may be learned, but be who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but be who has mastered himself is mightier still.

On May 8 Edgar went to the White House to discuss the problem with the President and senior members of the cabinet. The outcome was that for the first time, Edgar gained official sanction to conduct political intelligence.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

When such men as Laurence Fitzgibbon were called upon to act as governors, was it not to be expected that the ignorant but still intelligent Bunces of the population should— "d––––n it all"?

Both Lizzieites and anti-Lizzieites were disposed to think that Lizzie was very clever.

He certainly was no fool. He had read much, and, though he generally forgot what he read, there were left with him from his readings certain nebulous lights, begotten by other men's thinking, which enabled him to talk on most subjects. It cannot be said of him that he did much thinking for himself; — but he thought that he thought.

But they do say that she is the cleverest of them all," Mrs. Pole had added, very properly. The people of Exeter had expressed such an opinion, and had been quite just in doing so. I do not know how it happens, but it always does happen, that everybody in every small town knows which is the brightest-witted in every family.

Of course, sir; when a man's stomach rises above his intelligence, he'll have to argue accordingly,' said the Senator.

I daresay I am an idiot," said Miss Macnulty, resuming her novel.

It had been asserted so often that the disestablishment of the Church was only a question of time, that the intelligence of the country had gradually so learned to regard it. Who had said so, men did not know and did not inquire; — but the words were spoken everywhere.

He was almost inclined to think that marriage was an old-fashioned custom, fitted indeed well enough for the usual dull life of the world at large, — as many men both in heathen and in Christian ages have taught themselves to think of religion, — but which was not adapted to his advanced intelligence.

A world ruled by a handful of madmen who weren't even that bright. How had it come to this?

Genius simplifies things

La indiferencia es el peso muerto de la historia. La indiferencia opera potentemente en la historia. Opera pasivamente, pero opera. Es la fatalidad; aquello con que no se puede contar. Tuerce programas, y arruina los planes mejor concebidos. Es la materia bruta desbaratadora de la inteligencia.