Subject: Intelligence (Page 5)

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Characteristics Definitions Intelligence Thinking

Idiot: A man who sees your point in an argument but refuses to see your way.

Definitions Intelligence

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

(1863 – 1941) U.S. senator (California) & U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Communication Ideas Speech

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence Things

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist
Conflict Ideas Intelligence War

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence Problems

Sam, if brains were money you’d have to take out a loan for a cup of coffee.

(1949 – ) American actress
Intelligence TV/Movie Quotes

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Intelligence Mind Sports

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

(1948 – ) American book critic
Intelligence

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence

That's why we in shock as a country 'cause we went from a president that would make up words to a president that make us look up the words when he talks.

(1971 – ) American comedian & actress
Communication Intelligence Speech

Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Work

No doubt exists that all women are crazy, it’s only a question of degree.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Intelligence People Women

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Fools Murphy’s Laws Wisdom

My wife’s not smart, you know? She used to reach inside her bra to count to two.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Intelligence

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Situations

One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.

(1824 – 1895) French writer
Intelligence Stupidity

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Intelligence Wisdom

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


Age Intelligence Mind Old

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Emotions Happiness Malaprops Mind

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster
Intelligence Wisdom