Quotes About Intelligence

She was… damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart… and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn't turning away.

I used my brains to outsmart teachers—and that wasn't very smart at all.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius; and it almost always happens that those who use it to cover themselves in one place, lay themselves open in another.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Ladislas Farago

Am I the only non-idiot on the planet?" "Yes, Morgan Toth, you are," Gabriel piped up. "Will you be our king?

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

Everything else in Lazlo's mind took a step back to clear space for this new intelligence.

La suerte no tiene nada que ver- respondió- se trata de fuerza e inteligencia