Quotes About Intelligence

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.""What an accomplishment. No one has ever done that before.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

When you argue with someone, you always argue at the level of the person with the lowest level of intelligence. You never argue up.

You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip.

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck, would it have killed you to read a book?

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.