Subject: Intelligence (Page 35)

The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)
Intelligence Mind

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Intelligence People Stupidity

A decision is what a man makes when he can’t get anyone to serve on a committee.

(1911 – 1993) columnist & novelist
Intelligence

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

(1741 – 1794) French writer
Fools Intelligence

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor
Age Memory Mind Old

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

Education Learning Memory

Just imagine what he’ll be like when senility kicks in… if it hasn’t already.

English former football player & manager
Health Intelligence Mind Misspokements

Sure I've got one; it's a perfect twenty-twenty.

American football player
Intelligence Misspokements

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Entertainment Insults Memory People

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot; the guy who invented the other three… he was a genius.

(1922 – 2014) American comic actor & writer
Intelligence

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic
Communication Intelligence

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)
Age Education Intelligence Young

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Intelligence

Couldn't scratch his ass if he had a tiger in both hands.

Expressions Intelligence Stupidity

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

(1908 – 1965) American broadcast journalist & newscaster
Communication Intelligence Speech Wisdom World

You don't have to be a Harvard professor to manage baseball; in fact, I think you're better off having an IQ like mine.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Baseball Intelligence Sports

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
Ideas Insults Intelligence

We all agree your theory is crazy… but is it crazy enough to be true?

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist
Ideas Intelligence

Put it out of your mind; in no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Intelligence Memory Misspokements

Gonna take all of my thinking and all of my consecration.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Intelligence Malaprops