Intelligence Quote by Marcel Proust

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in…

— E. F. Schumacher

“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of…

— Oscar Wilde

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

Never assimilate, simulate or co-relate somebody's cleverness with his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide weakness and smartness is to project strength of his…

— Anuj Somany

There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous…

— E. M. Forster

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his…

— Anuj

We all like smart people but we hate it when they show their smartness to us.

— Rohit Mittal

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful…

— Howard Jacobson

Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and…

— Randall Jarrell

Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics

— Adam Pazandak

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled.…

— Callan McAuliffe