Subject: Intelligence (Page 41)

Alex Rieger: It’s so quiet up here you can hear yourself think.

Jim: I don’t hear anything.

(1938 – ) American actor

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

How To Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

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

(1906 – 1982) baseball player

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

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

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

I’m in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn’t even know I exist – and worse… she can prove it.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

She has a photogenic memory.

A lot of people think kids say the darnedest things, but so would you if you had no education.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

(1862 – 1947) American educator

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

(1839 – 1902) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Intelligent conversationalist: One who nods his head in agreement while you’re talking.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

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

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist

A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan.

(1928 – 2019) American business magnate a&d financier

When you become senile, you won't know it.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president