Subject: Intelligence (Page 27)

Do you follow where I'm coming from?

Mixed metaphors Understanding

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Intelligence Memory Wisdom

In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Communication Memory Misspokements Speech Time

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

(1914 – ) American comic & actor
Insults Intelligence

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president
Insults Intelligence

Only one percent of the oil pollution in the sea is the result of oil drilling, while 63 percent is the result of natural seepage on the ocean floor.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)
Intelligence Misspokements Stupidity

History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer
History Intelligence Time

No doubt exists that all women are crazy, it’s only a question of degree.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Intelligence People Women

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can’t think of your face.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words
Intelligence Misspokements

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

(1906 – 1982) baseball player
Intelligence Situations

Forget that guy – just illiterate him from your memory.

Malaprops Memory

Common sense is not so common.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist
Intelligence

There are three types of intelligence: the intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military… in that order.

(1911 – 1994) German film director & producer
Animals Intelligence Military

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Intelligence

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

(1948 – ) American book critic
Intelligence

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Insults Intelligence Stupidity

Don't get insulted, but is your job devoted to spreading ignorance?

Insults Intelligence

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

(1885 – 1972) expatriate American poet & critic
Definitions Intelligence People

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws