Quotes About Intelligence

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.