Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

People are not stupid.

Intelligence is not a science.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

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.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

I'm a little smarter than most.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

I think I have good judgment.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.