Quotes About Intelligence

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Laugh, if thou art wise.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

It's clever but is it art?

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.