Subject: Intelligence (Page 5)

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Eating Food/Drink Intelligence

Remember… write to your congressman; even if he can’t read… write to him.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Communication Intelligence Politicians Reading/Writing

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist
Emotions Intelligence Love

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

(1908 – 1965) American broadcast journalist & newscaster
Communication Intelligence Speech Wisdom World

Never enter a battle of wits half-armed.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic
Communication Intelligence

His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor
Insults Intelligence Mind

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

(1919 – ) American poet, painter & liberal activist
Intelligence Mind

When arguing with a stupid person, be sure he isn’t doing the same thing.

Fools Intelligence

If there is a substitute for brains it has to be silence.

Intelligence

An admiring drunk to Parker: I simply can’t bear fools.
Parker: Apparently, your mother did not have the same difficulty.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Fools Intelligence

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A fool and his money are soon married.

(1862 – 1942) American author & poet
Fools Intelligence Marriage

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education Learning Memory

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

(1826 – 1877) English economist & journalist
Books Communication Reading/Writing Wisdom

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist
Communication Intelligence Reading/Writing Time

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap.

(1903 – 1989) American writer
Food/Drink Insults Intelligence

What some people lack in intelligence, they more than make up for stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

How To Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Book Titles Intelligence

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Appearance Characteristics Children Intelligence Religion Wives

Who’s cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Ideas Intelligence Language