Quotes About Intelligence

I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick.

She was waiting for him to say something intelligent, Grimm realized. Damn the woman, but she should know better than that. Intelligent just didn't happen when he was around Jillian.

Being smart is handy, but if you aren't mentally agile, it doesn't get you anywhere but stuck in your own fact-ruts.

Inwardly, Lisa glowed. She was smart in the fourteenth century.

Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors of plastic flowers. One hen quickly pulled out all the red flowers, and another the white ones, leaving the pink flowers in the basket.

cats had more emotional intelligence than many humans.

a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

He was intelligent and healthy, but decent to a point that crippled him as a master of his home or an accumulator of wealth. Madelaine had once characterized him as standing on the edge of the mainstream of life, smiling and saying, "Pardon me," "After you,"and "No, thank you.

No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem." Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem.

Oh, a math word problem. You're flirting with me, aren't you?

I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

What really stopped me was that there was no way to try out for Mensa without looking conceited.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

We can know more than we can tell.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

intelligences. If we subscribe to the false idea that being emotional is the opposite of being rational, we'll set up

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

dangerous trade, and she knew there was a bevy of analysts