Quotes About Intelligence

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself.

I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most any thing and I believe him.

C?r?ile mele sunt ca apa. C?r?ile marilor genii sunt ca vinul. Din fericire toat? lumea bea ap?.

What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

In his day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try—but in our day of telegraphs and newspapers his plan compels us to swear in juries composed of fools and rascals, because the system rigidly excludes honest men and men of brains.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. –

Ä°yi kitaplar okumayan biriyle, okuma yazma bilmeyen biri aras?nda hiçbir fark yoktur.

Un hombre de inteligencia sana no puede ser feliz, porque la vida es para él una realidad, y ve que es una realidad terrible. Únicamente

what a dull-witted slug the average human being is.

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

I judged I would have the start of the best-educated man in the kingdom by a matter of thirteen hundred years and upwards.

Tan poco observador eres que todavía no has descubierto que la felicidad y el estar en sano juicio son dos cosas imposibles de combinar? Un hombre de inteligencia sana no puede ser feliz, porque la vida es para el una realidad, y ve que es una realidad terrible. únicamente los locos, y no muchos locos, pueden ser felices.

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man

The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They did so by keeping their leaders from being surprised.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.)

Una niña de once años es muchas cosas, pero no tonta.

Le cÅ"ur humain est une ligne, tandis que le mien est un cercle, et j'ai la capacité infinie de me trouver au bon moment au bon endroit. En conséquence, je trouve toujours des humains au meilleur et au pire d'eux-mêmes. Je vois leur beauté et leur laideur, et je me demande comment une même chose peut réunir l'une et l'autre. Reste que je les envie sur un point. Les humains ont au moins l'intelligence de mourir.