Quotes About Intelligence

They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

I'm far too intelligent to be brave, thank you very much.

Someday I will teach you how to plan and administer an attack on a fortification. You don't just drive up to it, you idiot. What did you think would happen?

Genius has as many components as the mind itself.

Intelligence is too complex and multifaceted a thing to reduce to any single dimension.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

There's always someone who knows something.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid.

I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.

Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes…

The most powerful and strongest part in your body is your 'brain'. It can fetch u anything.. Use it and Use it wisely.

Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams.

You don't have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

The rule is easy to understand.Be simple, honest & smart.