Quotes About Intelligence

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.