Quotes about Intelligence

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Genius lasts longer than beauty

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Moss was almost certainly dead. That left the police. Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.