Subject: Intelligence (Page 41)

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
America Intelligence Language Military Places

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Fools Intelligence

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

(1821 – 1880) French novelist
Emotions Happiness Stupidity

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Intelligence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Emotions Intelligence Love

I get to go to lots of overseas places… like Canada.

(1981 – ) American singer
Intelligence Misspokements Places

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child; just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic
Golf Honesty Insults Intelligence Sports

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Intelligence

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

In mathematics you don't understand things… you just get used to them.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician
Intelligence Science/Weather Understanding

Alex Rieger: It’s so quiet up here you can hear yourself think.

Jim: I don’t hear anything.

(1938 – ) American actor
Intelligence Thinking TV/Movie Quotes

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

fictional character from the book series by A. A. Milne
Intelligence Thinking

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Beliefs Intelligence Law Opinion

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Age Intelligence Old Young

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks… mostly sits.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Beliefs Intelligence

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Intelligence Situations Understanding

Consistence requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

1865 – 1959) American art historian
Characteristics Intelligence Stupidity

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

(1899 – 1995) humorist
Autos Fools Things

People say it’s easy to make fun of retarded people, but it’s not… you really have to explain it to them.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian
Intelligence People