Quotes About Intelligence

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.