Subject: Intelligence (Page 5)

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

(1814 – 1882) American clergyman
Family Fathers Intelligence

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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

(1955 – ) English actor
Intelligence Stupidity

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host
Intelligence People

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

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

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor
Fools Intelligence Mistakes Problems

Germs attack people where they're weakest – which is why there are so many head colds.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Health Intelligence

A fool and his money is a friend indeed.

Fools Friends Intelligence Money People

Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.

(1911 – 1980) humorist, writer, television host & journalist
Communication Intelligence Speech

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Fools Intelligence Mistakes People Problems

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

(1913 – 1960) French-Algerian author, philosopher & journalist
Intelligence Stupidity

He is so stupid… he got fired from an M&M factory for throwing out all the W's.

Exaggerations Intelligence Stupidity

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

(1926 – 2009) Irish dramatist, television writer & essayist
Insults Intelligence

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor
Animals Intelligence Stupidity Wisdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education Fools Intelligence Wisdom

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet
Intelligence Stupidity

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

(1913 – 1960) French-Algerian author, philosopher & journalist
Intelligence People

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Ideas Intelligence

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Expressions Fools Intelligence Stupidity