Quotes About Intelligence

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to schools that let their talents and intelligence and energy flow. Give them the right schools, with discipline and order and a love of learning, and they will have a chance of real academic achievement.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.