Quotes About Intelligence

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.

Genius is born, not paid.

Scelgo i miei amici per la loro bellezza, le mie conoscenze per la loro rispettabilità, e i miei nemici per la loro intelligenza.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

Estoy harto de la inteligencia. Todo el mundo es inteligente en la actualidad. No se puede ir a ningún lado sin conocer a gente inteligente. La cosa se ??ha convertido en una verdadera calamidad pública. Desearía por sobre todas las cosas que aún nos quedaran algunos tontos.

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

He had that rarest of all things, common sense.