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Quotes About Intelligence

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
~ Saki, Reginald
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
~ Albert Einstein
Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.
~ Donita K. Paul, DragonFire
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
~ George Lucas
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
~ Aristotle
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
~ Jane Austen
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
~ Bill Watterson
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
~ Steven Wright
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
~ Jim Goad
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.
~ George W. Bush
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
~ Jane Austen
I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are.
~ Natasha Leggero
I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.
~ Frankie Boyle
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
~ Scott Adams
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
~ Martin Freeman
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder
~ Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently
~ Sarah MacLean, The Season
People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.
~ Robert Benton