Quotes About Intelligence

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.

Jews have a reputation for being intelligent, and they are intelligent. The only place I have ever been where all the Jews are stupid is Israel.

Anyone with any brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated by any intelligent, thoughtful, determined person.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

Viverei como uma mulher apaixonada e inteligente e levarei a minha paixão e a minha inteligência para tudo o que fizer.

She wasn't even supposed to be in fourth grade at all, she was supposed to be in third. Just because she was supposed to be super smart--"precocious," the grown-ups called it--didn't mean he had to like her. Wally began to think that precocious was just about the most awful thing you could possibly be, next to dead.

They'll just have to prove they're stronger and bigger and smarter and faster, when they're really dumber than doorbells and slower than snails," said Eddie.

La culture, c'est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l'étale.