Quotes About Intelligence

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.