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Quotes About Intelligence

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
~ Emo Philips
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
~ Pablo Picasso
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
~ Unknown
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
~ Eric Sykes
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
~ Anonymous
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
~ Groucho Marx
Weve all met people who are supposedly incredibly intelligent but dont know which way to sit on a lavatory.
~ Stephen Fry
I'd rather be called 'Sleazy' than to be identified as intelligent.
~ Phil Donahue
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ Somerset Maugham
It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.
~ Truman Capote
Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?
~ Unknown
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
~ Roberto Cavalli
A beautiful girl is a beautiful girl, but a beautiful girl with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.
~ Unknown
God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett
You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.
~ Charleszetta Waddles
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
~ William Congreve
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
~ Marcel Proust
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
~ Martin Luther
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
~ Frank Sinatra
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.
~ Unknown
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
~ Erica Jong
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
~ Markus Wolf
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
~ Markus Wolf
Looks are only temporary, but intelct is forever.
~ Unknown