When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.