Intelligence Quote by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world…

— James Russell Lowell

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe:…

— Harlan Ellison

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

— Paul Tillich

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

— Augustus Hare

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all…

— Lily Tomlin

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

— Harlan Ellison

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

— Sarah Jessica Parker