Subject: Intelligence (Page 32)

What are you afraid they're gonna do – sneak in and redecorate the place?

comedian & television writer

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist

Philosophy: A study which enables man to be unhappy more intelligently.

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

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

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.

Émile Chartier (1868 – 1951) French philosopher, journalist & pacifist

Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist

All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains; what good are brains to a man? … they only unsettle him.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Intimacy: A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Exercise freaks… are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

(1935 – ) screenwriter, author, director & producer

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

(1932 – ) American biologist & educator

Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

She is so stupid… when you said it was chilly outside she went and got a bowl.

Everyone has the right to be stupid but you’re abusing the priviledge.

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

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

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!