Jonathan Swift Quotes

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

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.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

I'm not like a high intellectual.