Quotes About Intelligence

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Y aunque yo era entonces un chiquillo, recuerdo que pensé lo siguiente: «Un hombre tonto no es capaz de hacer en ningún momento de su vida los disparates que hacen a veces las naciones, dirigidas por centenares de hombres de talento»

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

The women, too, exhibit a high level of grace, intelligence, strength, and beauty.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

It was not just one career I mourned; as I had never tried any career I mourned them all. Never having put my talents to the test, I imagined they were limitless and cursed them because of it, wishing nature had made me weak and commonplace, and spared me at any rate the remorse that comes from deliberate self-abasement. Any praise or approval of my intelligence or knowledge seemed an unbearable reproach, like hearing admiration for the powerful arms of an athlete chained down in a dungeon.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.