Intelligence Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Good men are often more practical than pretty”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Great beauties and stunningly handsome men were accorded virtues: people found them funnier, smarter, more insightful than they actually were.”

— Brent Weeks

“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then giver views to passion, without that proper deliberation…

— David Hume

“When people are missing out in their choices and cannot make a distinction between cheery, witty, funny, filthy or scurrilous walks of life, they…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of he sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.”

— Christopher Paolini

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.”

— Joseph Heller

“Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton