Subject: Intelligence (Page 30)

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence

You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.

(1961 – ) American actor, director, producer & screenwriter
Stupidity TV/Movie Quotes

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

She is so stupid… she stared at an orange juice carton for twenty minutes because the label said "concentrate."

Exaggerations Intelligence Stupidity

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

(1891 – 1968) American publisher of The New York Times
Intelligence Mind

Stupidity got us into this mess, and stupidity will get us out.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
Situations Stupidity TV/Movie Quotes

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach
Age Football Memory Sports

There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft… he makes me tired.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Characteristics Insults Intelligence

Let’s face it, sports writers, we’re not hanging around with brain surgeons.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist
Intelligence People Sports

Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

Age Definitions Intelligence Memory Old

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Emotions Intelligence Love

Only a fool can reproduce another fool’s work.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Work

If you know you don't know much, you are smarter than most people.

Intelligence

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

(1981 – ) American singer
Intelligence Misspokements Places

Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn’t have that, then she’s mine.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian
Girls Intelligence People Women

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher
Insults Intelligence Mind

A little ignorance can go a long way.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician
Fools Intelligence Money People

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

(1894 – 1986) British prime minister
Communication Intelligence Politicians

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

(1972 – ) American actress & former model
Intelligence Science/Weather