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Quotes About Intelligence

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
~ Wilhelm Steinitz
I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.
~ Terry Wogan
I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
~ Megyn Kelly
I love a guy who knows who he is, can make me laugh, and challenges me intellectually.
~ Alexis Ren
Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
~ Agatha Christie
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
~ Jose Mourinho
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
~ George Bernard Shaw
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
~ Menander
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
~ Emil Cioran
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
~ John Ciardi
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
~ Phaedrus
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
~ Paul P. Harris
Those who respect the intelligence of the common man have always been masters.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
~ David Fincher
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
~ Simone Weil
Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
~ Paul P. Harris
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
~ Charles Bass
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
~ Ben Kingsley
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
~ Edward Thorndike