Subject: Intelligence (Page 25)

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? … I'm just noting the timing, here.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

We can outsmart those dolphins. Don't forget – we invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel-and-eat shrimp, the glory hole, and the pudding cup.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I've never been an intellectual, but I have this look.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

One thing in which the sexes are equal is in thinking that they're not.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Facts are meaningless; you can use facts to prove anything that’s remotely true!

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

(1971 – ) Canadian blogger, journalist & science fiction author

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

author

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

(1842 – 1910) American philosopher & psychologist

Yeah, she's beautiful, but you can't find her IQ with a flashlight.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

Everything can be solved through civilized dialogue and implied agony.

online cartoonist

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains; what good are brains to a man? … they only unsettle him.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

I’m actually really intelligent; and I’m blonde, which is like… the trifecta.

comedian