Quotes About Intelligence

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

if you're hella smart, like Hawking or the other Roosevelt, maybe you can get away with not being able to use your body.

Surface beauty, blond hair, blue eyes is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's hard to see.

I love her fairy-wise mind.

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

In search of wit these lose their common sense

To me what Nature has in charms denied, Is well by Wit's more lasting flames supplied.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Çünkü ak?l maddeyi güzelle?tirir bilgi akl? parlat?r.

El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.

Exista de cand lumea o categorie de oropsitori ai vietii, fanatici care interzic fericirea, osandesc placerea, detesta rasul si persecuta inteligenta. Ei obtin întotdeauna stima imbecililor si izbutesc recurent sa instaleze o forma sau alta de teroare.

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

We are all stupid. The smartest person is just a little less stupid than the rest of us.

to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and the thinly veiled hypocrisy of a "spectacular" society which by not respecting words abuses people, and by insulting the intelligence creates a state of political cretinisation in which the many and various forms of authoritarian control dominate.

Man know much more than he understands.

Man knows more than he understands.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.