Quotes About Intelligence

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. "And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!" He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work by adding intelligence to the mix.

And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!

Respectability had its uses. I wondered idly how many spymasters had thought of using elderly ladies? You didn't hear about old women as spies—but then again, that might merely indicate how good they were at it.

Lord John had been nothing but courtesy itself to me. More than that, he had been intelligent, thoughtful—thoroughly charming, in fact. And listening to him making intelligent, thoughtful, charming conversation with Jamie knotted my insides and made me clench my hands under cover of the quilt. You are an idiot, I told myself savagely.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgement, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work by adding intelligence to the mix.

My best asset to my game is my IQ. I play the game thinking the game first.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

I'm a smart guy, I like to think of myself as a smart guy, but sometimes I go out there and do a lot of dumb stuff.

I get asked really dumb questions.

I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I was a dummy in school.

We used to say, There's nothing cool about being a dummy.

Israel cannot afford to be duped.

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

The economies of the future are information.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.