Quotes About Intelligence

When you hear someone say, Now this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.

Nicolás Maquiavelo dijo: "El primer método para calcular la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que lo rodean".

La primera regla para estimar la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que tiene alrededor suyo

He improvised a heretical thanksgiving for the constancy and intelligence of his wife, the clear eyes of his children, and the suppleness of his mistress.

OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy. WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross during assembly because he felt the boys had become lazy, and so he demanded that every single boy in the school should improve his ranking in class in the course of the next fortnight.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

I guess we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be spirited away ... Well, I feel that I should say, Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries! And the reason I feel I should say this is he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw away this glorious opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him, but mindless good taste.

Frames of Mind

The language of trees is even more remote from human intelligence than the language of beasts or of birds. What to these lovers, for instance, would the singular syllables wuther-quotle-glug have signified?

Life can be tough. But it only gets tougher when you're stupid.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Girls work on their looks, not their minds, because they know boys are dumb, not blind.

Don't mistake my niceness for a weakness... it's a strategy.

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

Computers are stupid.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.