Alain-René Lesage Quotes

Brains first and then Hard Work.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

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

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Yeah, I'm very smart.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

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

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

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

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.