Subject: Intelligence (Page 9)

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Intelligence Mind Mistakes People Problems

It's a scientific fact; for every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

(1924 – 1984) American author
Hollywood Intelligence Places

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist
Intelligence Memory Past

Insane people are always sure that they are fine; it is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director
Intelligence

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)
Insults Stupidity TV/Movie Quotes

To expect life to treat you good is as foolish as hoping a bull won’t hit you because you are a vegetarian.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer
Intelligence Life

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Alcohol Beliefs Intelligence Religion

A liar should have a good memory.

Memory Murphy’s Laws People

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

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

Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Characteristics Intelligence

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Ideas Intelligence

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane.

(1933 – 1967) English playwright
Appearance Intelligence

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

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

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor
Fools Intelligence Mistakes Problems

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

(1913 – 1960) French-Algerian author, philosopher & journalist
Intelligence Stupidity

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author
Education Intelligence Learning Wisdom

One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.

(1824 – 1895) French writer
Intelligence Stupidity

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist
Intelligence Stupidity

The cure to information overload is more information.

(1950 – ) American technologist, commentator, author & editor
Beliefs Facts Intelligence

Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Fools Intelligence Wisdom

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James
Intelligence Mind