Subject: Intelligence

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

(1900 – 1944) French aristocrat, writer, poet & pioneering aviator

It (a cubicle) basically says, like, 'You know what?… we don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.'

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

(1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian & singer

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

(1890 – 1969) 34th U.S. president, U.S. Army General

A fishing rod is a stick with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

I've never been an intellectual, but I have this look.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

(1883 – 1965) French-born composer

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

(1948 – ) American book critic

I get to go to lots of overseas places… like Canada.

(1981 – ) American singer

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

(1862 – 1947) American educator

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

If he were any dumber, he’d be a tree.

(1909 – 1998) U.S. senator (Arizona)

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.

(1948 – ) American writer & mathematician

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.

(1844 – 1912) Scottish poet, novelist & literary critic

Intelligent conversationalist: One who nods his head in agreement while you’re talking.

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman