Quotes About Intelligence

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.