Quotes About Intelligence

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what's being said around her. Nevermind if a man's mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he'll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You're a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

The god inside the man glanced at Aly. This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear. Aly beamed at him. So it is. And the game begins.

Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

Have you not discovered that when people, men and women, find a woman who acts intelligently, they say she acts like a man? - Character: Ali Muktab. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man

From what I hear, he is a young man of sparkling if not always kindly wit.

Mevary, who was in many ways a fool had still the quick immediate wit of those incapable of prolonged deduction.

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

The desire for stimulants following hard on the heels of sentience

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do." She looked around. "He didn't hear that, did he?

Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.

Isn't biblical Eden an ambivalent symbol? It seems to me that the myth simply shows us that self-awareness and intelligence are perilous. And they can be deadly. But consider the alternative to the Tree of Knowledge. Would anyone want innocence at such a price?

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I lacked self-confidence. I don't know why. I was smart and people liked me.

Magnanimous of you.' His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

Today, no one questions-whether women are equal to men in ability and itelligence.

Teachers preach the superiority of the intelligence; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

Lo que pasa es que se creen sabios -dice de golpe-. Se creeen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se los han comido.

Vos me dirás que aquí hay grandes poetas, y es cierto. Yo he dicho que la poesía no es un mérito humano, sino una fatalidad que se padece. Aquí hay un buen montón de hombres atacados de poesía, mientras que te invito a que me recuentes los creadores activos, es decir, los inteligentes.

Cuanto más inteligente es una mujer, más hermosa la veo. Me encantan las que se maquillan con conocimiento, poesía, buena música y bellas palabras.