Subject: Intelligence (Page 40)

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet
Insults Intelligence

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.


Intelligence People

Beauty times brains equals a constant.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

(1900 – 1944) French aristocrat, writer, poet & pioneering aviator
Children Family Intelligence Parents

Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Communication Ideas Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Family Fathers Intelligence Learning Stupidity Wisdom

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

(1902 – 1968) novelist
Insults Intelligence

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Intelligence

Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Communication Intelligence

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

Intelligence Wisdom

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)
Communication Intelligence Reading/Writing

Circus: A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Animals Communication Definitions Fools Language People

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Intelligence Stupidity

You know how your friends are all morons, and they got the stories wrong all the time?… it’s the same here with the Bible.

(1960 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer
Friends Intelligence Old People

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

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

A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over.


Intelligence

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Emotions Intelligence Laughter Thinking

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

(1842 – 1910) American philosopher & psychologist
Intelligence Thinking

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Alcohol Ideas Murphy’s Laws