The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Look, the American people are smart.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

The brain is wider than the sky.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

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.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.