Tom Stoppard Quotes

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

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

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

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

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

People are smarter than you might think.

Brainy's the new sexy.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Intelligence is not a science.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.