My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Very clever but dumb at shooting... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart.

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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