I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

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.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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?

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

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

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

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

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

The brain is wider than the sky.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

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

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

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.

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

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

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

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.