Subject: Intelligence (Page 29)

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.


Intelligence Memory

He] had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Intelligence Mind

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist
Intelligence Life Time

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Murphy’s Laws Thinking

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Intelligence Situations Wisdom

If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it; the piece will make perfect sense without it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

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

Intelligence Memory

It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Fools Intelligence

You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.

(1933 – 1967) English playwright
Fools Intelligence Stupidity

I think I am, therefore I am… I think.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Intelligence Life

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator
Entertainment Intelligence Music Wisdom

My girlfriend said she wanted me to dominate her; so I said, “OK, let’s play Scrabble.”

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian
Intelligence Sex

He is so stupid… he thought Johnny Cash was a pay toilet.

Exaggerations Intelligence Stupidity

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Emotions Intelligence Laughter

Stupidity, if left untreated, is self-correcting.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author
Intelligence Stupidity

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist
Communication Intelligence Reading/Writing Time

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
America Government Intelligence Occupations Places Work

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Communication Intelligence Speech Wisdom

Your head is as empty as a hermit's address book.

(1955 – ) English actor
Intelligence Stupidity

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist
Communication Thinking

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Intelligence Sports Thinking Yogi-isms