Eunice Kennedy Shriver Quotes

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

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.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

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

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

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

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

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

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

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.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

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

The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I never said I was a genius.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

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

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.