Quotes About Intelligence

I really like clever men who challenge you.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.