Quotes About Intelligence

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.