Quotes About Intelligence

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.