Quotes About Intelligence

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

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

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.