Quotes About Intelligence

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

He had tried to catch her out, but always she thought ahead of him. Her wits moved quick. The snow leopard was sharper than the black bear.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

In war-time," I said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Silence is the secret of war.' —PRIOR

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

democracies are apt to think with their hearts rather than with their heads, and a general's business is, or should be, to use his head for planning.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Goodness is helpless without wits

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

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I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

Bertie, he said, I want your advice. Carry on. At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course. No, no, I see that. What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests.

My brain? That's my second favorite organ.