Quotes About Intelligence

Contributing to and supporting this euphoria are two further factors little noted in our time or in past times. The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. ... The second ... is the specious association of money and intelligence.

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

It is possible to see here again the constants in these matters. Associated with the wealth of the Banque Royale, Law was a genius—intelligence, as ever, derived from association with money. When the wealth dissolved and disappeared, he was a fugitive mercilessly reviled.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Individuals were dangerously captured by belief in their own financial acumen and intelligence and conveyed this error to others.

Me?' He smiled faintly. 'Listen, I could study forever and I'd never break a C. But it's different for you, you're good. You really are. If I had a brain like that, I'd-I'd have my head cut open so people could look at it'. 'Now wait a second. . .

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

I shall never be completely happy at it, for I shall never be able to do much thinking myself—and I have been just clever enough, in my youth, to mistrust everyone who tries to think for me.

British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn't fresh.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN

There is no limit to a woman's intelligence provided she is not required to be coherent. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Cats could follow human instructions if they wanted to, but they don't.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. BILL COSBY

Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses

I'm not very good at handling stupid people. I must admit.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.