Edgar Degas Quotes

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

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

Intelligence is only as good as it has an effect on policy

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.

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

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

I've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.

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.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

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.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.