Subject: Intelligence (Page 45)

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

(1955 – ) English actor
Intelligence Stupidity

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Intelligence Memory

Creativity: The sudden cessation of stupidity.

Definitions Intelligence

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Education Government Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Politics Sports

Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian
Beliefs Intelligence Opinion Thinking

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat
Fools Intelligence Marriage Men Women

About the only thing you can say for his constipation of ideas is his diarrhea of words.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Communication Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor
Intelligence People

If you run out of sound judgment, borrow.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
Intelligence

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman
Emotions Intelligence Laughter

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Intelligence People Thinking Time

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

(1862 – 1960) English writer
Intelligence People Wisdom

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

Am I getting smart with you? … how would you know?

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host
Intelligence

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

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

Exaggerations Intelligence Stupidity

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

(1942 – 2018) English physicist
Intelligence

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… prepare to die.

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist
Communication Intelligence Speech

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Age Intelligence Old Young

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Fools Intelligence Money