Subject: Intelligence (Page 26)

If there is a substitute for brains it has to be silence.

Intelligence

Do not argue with an idiot; he/she will drag you down to his/her level and beat you with experience.

Fools Intelligence People

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Happiness Intelligence Money Poverty Wealth

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.


Conflict Intelligence Killing People Stupidity

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

(1908 – 1990) English actor
Ideas Intelligence

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Intelligence Memory

A fool and your money are soon partners.

Fools Money Murphy’s Laws

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Thinking

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Expressions Fools Intelligence Stupidity

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence

Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.

Emotions Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

It doesn't take rocket appliances.

Intelligence Malaprops

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist
Intelligence Stupidity

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Intelligence People Reading/Writing Stupidity

Insane people are always sure that they are fine; it is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director
Intelligence

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

(1934 – ) writer & editor
Intelligence People Places Science/Weather Stupidity

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks… mostly sits.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Beliefs Intelligence

Smart as a tree full of owls.

Animals Expressions Intelligence Wisdom

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Intelligence Stupidity

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

(1897 – 1975) American author & playwright
Fools Intelligence People

It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Communication Intelligence Science/Weather