Quotes About Intelligence

The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the reasons people love watching them and listening to them.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

I love a smart girl and a girl who loves her family!

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

Psychotherapy is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you're talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence. If you weren't so stupid, after all, you wouldn't have your stupid problems.

Freud, as we noted, attempted to reduce motivation to sexuality, to libido. The same can be done quite effectively by anyone sufficiently literate, intelligent, and verbally fluent. This is because "sexuality" (like any multifaceted single term) can be defined as tightly or as loosely as necessary by those who use it for comprehensively explanatory purposes.

a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

And how can we possibly communicate with each other intelligibly about that attempt, trade information about the most effective conceptualizations, approaches, and strategies? The answer to that, as far as I can tell, is by communicating through stories about what is and, equally, what could be. And what that implies is that if possibility is the ultimate element of reality with which we contend, then it is stories that hold the wisdom that we most need to know.

Advice is what you get when the person you're talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence. If you weren't so stupid, after all, you wouldn't have your stupid problems.

People differ in intelligence, which is in large part the ability to learn and transform.

You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.