Quotes About Intelligence

Poirot drew himself up in an important manner.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

a man of method. He might bring intelligence, talent, a careful calculation of detail to the task;

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?" "I am better than the police," said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.

Cuántas veces no habré oído decir a una mujer inteligente a más no poder: "Edgardo dice...", como quien cita a una autoridad incontrovertible. Y eso cuando todo el mundo sabe que Edgardo es un perfecto idiota.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.

The Lacedemonians are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where they are.

People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.

The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we'll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we'll know everything there is to know about this universe.

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.

But the work of man is only just beginning, and it remains to conquer all the violence entrenched in the recesses of our passions...and no race possesses the monopoly of beauty, of intelligence, of force. And there is a place for all at the rendezvous with victory.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.