Quotes About Intelligence

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

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

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency