Quotes About Intelligence

Never lose your sense of common sense.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent.

Life is very simple, but to make ourselves feel intelligent, we insist on making it complex.

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.