Quotes About Intelligence

For some girls it's sexy when a guy bench-presses or throws a football, but he's slaying me with the book references.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.