Quotes About Intelligence

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?