Subject: Intelligence (Page 45)

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws Women

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author
Education Intelligence Learning Wisdom

Henry James has a mind – a sensibility – so fine that no mere idea could ever penetrate it.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Insults Intelligence

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

(1975 – ) actor, director, screenwriter & producer
Family Memory People Relationships

A poem is no place for an idea.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Communication Ideas Intelligence Reading/Writing

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

(1924 – 2013) American businessman, author & columnist
Ideas Intelligence

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Animals Cold Football Intelligence Places Sports

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president
Insults Intelligence

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Fools Intelligence Stupidity

Only one percent of the oil pollution in the sea is the result of oil drilling, while 63 percent is the result of natural seepage on the ocean floor.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)
Intelligence Misspokements Stupidity

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Government Ideas Intelligence Law Murphy’s Laws

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

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Intelligence People Stupidity

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician
Insults Intelligence

You might be a redneck if… your family always goes to the movies in groups of 18 or more 'cause they were told 17 and under are not admitted.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Intelligence People Rednecks Stupidity

Evil and stupidity are randomly distributed.

Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

(1942 – ) humorist & radio broadcaster
Characteristics Intelligence Situations

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.

(1844 – 1912) Scottish poet, novelist & literary critic
Communication Intelligence Science/Weather

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

You're just trying to make me admit something I didn't do. I know all about reverse biology, buddy. I'm not an idiot.

Intelligence Malaprops

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Age Old Wisdom