Quotes About Intelligence

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

Man's best candle is his understanding.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I got it all, I got the money, I got the looks, I got the brainpower