Intelligence Quote by Nancy Mitford

“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…

— Jack Ketchum

“...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”

— Kate Millett

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

“The level of some people’s intelligence never failed to amaze her.”

— Paul Antony Jones

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

“She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't…

— Lora Leigh

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

— Maya Angelou

“She seemed determined to be human also; to like people, even though they were stupid.”

— Virginia Woolf

“What a burden it is to have an intelligent daughter. It goes against nature for wit to be bound up in so much beauty.”

— Anthony Ryan

“when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”

— Nevada Barr