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Quotes About Intelligence

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.
~ Mark Shields
I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
~ Megan Hart
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No fox is foxier than man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.
~ Michael Newdow
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
~ Napoleon Hill
You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.
~ Neil Gaiman
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
~ Peter Greenaway
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.
~ Randy Newman
A real man's weapon is his mind.
~ Rick Riordan
There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
~ Henry Thomas Buckle
Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.
~ Herbert
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
~ Homer
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
~ Horace
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.
~ Ilona Andrews