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Quotes About Intelligence

Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
~ Maya Angelou
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
~ Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.
~ Maya Angelou
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
~ Maya Angelou
I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
~ Maya Angelou
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me. He
~ Maya Angelou
She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.
~ Maya Angelou
You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my mother - yes, you belong in that category. Here, give me a kiss.
~ Maya Angelou
She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
~ Maya Angelou
You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.
~ Maya Angelou
When he finished, more triumphant stories rainbowed around the room riding the shoulders of laughter. By all accounts these storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. Instead they used their intelligence to pry open the door of rejection and not only became wealthy but got some revenge in the bargain. It wasn't possible for me to regard them as criminals or be anything but proud of their achievements.
~ Maya Angelou
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
~ Maya Angelou
Dijo que siempre debía ser intolerante con la ignorancia, pero comprensiva con la incultura, y que ciertas personas, que no podían ir a la escuela, eran más instruidas e incluso más inteligentes que los profesores de universidad.
~ Maya Angelou
Blithering ignorance can be found wherever you choose to live.
~ Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education
~ Maya Angelou
It's okay to expect more from the people around you. That doesn't make you unreasonable. It makes you smart.
~ Maya Banks
she was brilliant and that only brilliant people worried about not being brilliant any longer.
~ Maya Banks
When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.
~ Meg Cabot
Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.
~ Meg Cabot
Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information.
~ Meg Cabot
max the Ackermans family dog and brad had alot in common but max was defintely smarter
~ Meg Cabot
Para pembunuh tidak sepintar itu. Mereka, pada kenyataannya orang-orang yang sangat bodoh. Itu sebabnya mereka membunuh: Kecerdasan mereka begitu terbatas, sehingga mereka tidak bisa melihat jalan keluar yang lain.
~ Meg Cabot
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.
~ Megan McCafferty
How do you know that, Philo, dear? But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are. By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.
~ Megan Whalen Turner