Quotes About Intelligence

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Genius is born-not paid

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.