Quotes About Intelligence

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

To copy faults is want of sense.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

When we war against nature, we war against ourselves. There is no distinction, no dividing line, no enemy. We devour everything in a lust for self-destruction. As if that is intelligence's only gift.