Quotes About Intelligence

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.