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.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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

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

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

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

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

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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

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

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

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

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

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

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

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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.

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.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

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

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.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

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

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

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

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

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

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

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.

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

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

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

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.

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.