Intelligence Quotes

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

James Agate

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Ernest Hemingway

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

W. H. Auden

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Terry Pratchett

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

David Kay

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Peter Schuyler

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Mehmet Oz

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Carole King

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett