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Quotes About Intelligence

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.
~ Justin Chambers
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.
~ Augusten Burroughs
He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.
~ Jose Rizal
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
~ Edward Abbey
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
~ Plato
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
~ Avicenna
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
~ Alan Turing
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
~ Pythagoras
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
~ Booker T. Washington
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
~ Bertrand Russell
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
~ Henry Ford
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
There is no such thing as a former KGB man.
~ Vladimir Putin
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
~ Alan Turing
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.
~ Curtis Jackson
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.
~ Colin Chapman
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
~ Carl Jung
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
~ Alfred the Great
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is
~ Arnold Rothstein
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
~ Abraham Maslow
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
~ Betty Dodson
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
~ Mark Twain