Quotes About Intelligence

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

The public's not stupid.

I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.

Beauty fades, stupid is forever.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

People are just so stupid.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.