I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

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.

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

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.

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

Wit is educated insolence.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

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

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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

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.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

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

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

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

Look, the American people are smart.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

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

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

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

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

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.