John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

A second-class intellect—but a first-class temperament!

After all, Franklin [Delano Roosevelt] isn't very bright.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'm a little smarter than most.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.