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Quotes About Intelligence

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
~ Lord Byron
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
~ Frederick Lenz
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
~ Paul Newman
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
~ Virgil, The Georgics
The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.
~ Harvey Diamond
...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
~ John le Carre
My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities.
~ Jenna Lee
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
~ Bill Kurtis
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.
~ Bob Proctor
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
~ Norman Lear
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
~ Timothy Leary
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
~ Sam Cooke
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
~ James Lovelock
I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.
~ Tila Tequila
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
~ Adam Grant
Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.
~ Jane Goodall
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.
~ Rex Reed
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
~ Frank X. Barron
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
~ Peter McWilliams
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy