Subject: Intelligence (Page 15)

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Age People Understanding

You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws

I’m going to Radio Shack to buy one of those headsets like the broadcasters use… it seems as soon as you put them on, you get 100 times smarter.

American baseball manager
Baseball Intelligence Sports

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Communication Intelligence Reading/Writing

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer
Boxing Intelligence Misspokements Sports Thinking

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Intelligence Wisdom

Never enter a battle of wits half-armed.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

(1902 – 1968) novelist
Insults Intelligence

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
Government Ideas Intelligence Politicians

Forget that guy – just illiterate him from your memory.

Malaprops Memory

He was so square he was divisible by four.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Characteristics Intelligence

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter
Intelligence Mind

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Entertainment Intelligence

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Intelligence Language Self

Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
Mind Self TV/Movie Quotes

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind… or not to have a mind at all; how true that is.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Intelligence Mind Misspokements

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

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

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

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist
Intelligence Life Time

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

(1945 – 2010) American comedian & actor
Characteristics Honesty Intelligence