Quotes About Intelligence

A smart person will give you smart answers, but a wise person will ask you smart questions.

It takes a dumb person to make a smart one a pretty person to make an ugly one and a real one to make and fake one

When someone says your ugly, just tell them that ugliness can be fixed, stupidity can't! (:

Each pain makes you more strong, each betrayal more intelligent, every disappointment more skillful & each experience more wise.

I just wanna be me no disrespect, but motherfu.. you. My education stopped at a high school degree but I can outsmart any high IQ.

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Life is dull only to dull people.

Any thing is possible if you have willpower, intelligence and determination to make it happen.

Grades Doesn't measure intelligence and age doesn't define maturity

I'll rather be pretty than hot. I wouldn't want to be sexy if I couldn't be smart. I'll rather be sweet than a bi.... I'll rather have love than be filthy rich. I'll rather be me than what you want me to be any day.

No doubt my love for Albertine was not the most impoverished of those to which the want of will-power can reduce us, since it was not entirely platonic; she did give me physical pleasures, and she was also intelligent. But all that was secondary. What stayed in my mind was not something intelligent she might have said, but some remark that aroused my suspicion about her actions.

Prince d'Agrigente or the Prince de Cystria—whose masks of flesh and absent or vulgar intelligence had transformed them into rather ordinary specimens, to the point where I ended up feeling that I had landed on the Guermantes doormat not as upon the supposed threshold but at the terminus of the magic world of names.

Os nomes que designam as coisas respondem sempre a uma noção da inteligência, estranha às nossas impressões verdadeiras e que nos força a eliminar delas tudo o que não se reporte a essa noção.

No doubt these geographical regions and the historic past that injected forest glades and Gothic steeples into their names had to a certain extent shaped their faces, their minds, and their prejudices, but had survived in them only as does the cause in the effect—that is, as something that can be unearthed by the intelligence but in no way perceived by the imagination.

draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been at a dinner-party, could tell at once its exact degree of smartness, just as a man of letters, simply by reading a sentence, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Just as it is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent man is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by a nobleman but by an oaf that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.

The contempt which my father had for my kind of intelligence was so far tempered by his natural affection for me that, in practice, his attitude towards anything that I might do was one of blind indulgence.

a man of great ability will ordinarily pay less attention to other people's foolishness than would a fool.

perhaps indeed there exists but a single intelligence of which everyone is a co-tenant, an intelligence towards which each of us from out of his own separate body turns his eyes, as int a theatre where, if everyone has his own separate seat, there is on the other hand but a single stage.

I have to say that I had known people whose intelligence was superior. But the infinite extent, or the egoism, of love causes us to love people whose intellectual and moral features are the least objectively defined for us, we readjust them endlessly according to our desires and our fears, we cannot separate them from ourselves, they are no more than a vast and vague terrain where we externalize our affection.

not nearly smart enough for such a very smart man.