Quotes About Intelligence

I have always liked what the Scarecrow said to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. "If the water is dark," goes a German aphorism, "the lake must be deep." Instead of using good words like smart, they choose sophisticated or erudite.

It doesn't matter what you've got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

I'm not saying she's dumb, but she thinks the Silicon Valley is the space between her tits.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.

The true net worth of the wise is the wealth that wisdom imparts!

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape

During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.

Stupidity is not my strong point.

Loyal par paresse, honnête par lâcheté, bon par relâchement, doux par crainte, intelligent par avidité, sobre par hygiène - c'est ainsi que l'on peut avoir toutes les vertus.

La vie de l'intelligence constitue un univers lyrique incomparable, un drame complet où ne manquent ni l'aventure, ni les passions, ni la douleur, ni le comique, ni rien d'humain.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

Practical-life activities keep fifteen-month-olds at the leading edge of their skill development, building their intelligence, deepening their concentration, and giving them a new appreciation of their expanding capabilities. In

Because the materials selected for a specific purpose such as food preparation are set on a tray in order and sequence of use, from left to right and top to bottom, the child mentally incorporates this precise order it becomes part of his functional intelligence

Oddly, Angela took to school like a bird to flight. She completed her homework almost before the teacher finished assigning it and read twice as many books as required. She had an understanding of history as if she'd lived it. Most surprising, she could stand in front of the classroom and read with the passion and clarity of a little southern Shakespearean thespian.

They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.