William Shakespeare  - Quotes

 A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.



-Hamlet
 

Tags: fools   humor   ignorance   intelligence   wisdom     


Friedrich von Schiller  - Quotes

 Every true genius is bound to be naive.

 

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Oprah Winfrey  - Quotes

 When you know better you do better. 

Tags: education   intelligence   knowledge   wisdom     


Men in Black II  - Quotes

 Undercover alien intelligence officer:
Zed, the Drolecks are gone and the treaty is signed.
Zed:
Good work
Undercover alien intelligence officer:
Zed, what about that position you promised me in Men In Black?
Zed:
Still working on the Alien Affirmative Action Program. I'll keep you posted.
Undercover alien intelligence officer:
Wait a minute! That's not what you promised me!
Zed:
You're breaking up, can't hear you.
Undercover alien intelligence officer:
Zed! Hello? Zed?
Zed:
I'll call you back [starts walking away]
Undercover alien intelligence officer:
I could be Agent M!
 

Edgar Allan Poe  - Quotes

 Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence 

Tags: greatness   insanity   intelligence   sanity     
Carl Gustav Jung  - Quotes

 The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. 

Tags: intelligence   morality   psychology   reason     
P.G. Wodehouse  - Quotes

 I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so. 

Tags: attraction   brains   evolution   humor   intelligence   love   marriage   mating   stupidity     
The Powerpuff Girls  - Quotes

 Him:
Splendidly evil, isn't it?
Mojo Jojo:
Evil? How about stupid? Yes, thanks to your foolishness, we will be reduced to nothing. Nothing! Like the amount of intelligence inside your head. Nothing! Like the amount of respect I get after six seasons on this show!
 

We Were Soldiers  - Quotes

 Diplomatic Spook:
I don't like it. First time out a whole battalion gets massacred?
Army Intelligence Officer:
You think this is a massacre?
Diplomatic Spook:
I call losing a lot of draftees a bad week. Losing a Colonel's a massacre.
 

The Book of Life  - Quotes

 
[about human beings]
Satan:
It's amazing the things they do. They're inventing themselves now. Artificial intelligence and cybergenetics and so on.
Jesus Christ:
It's impressive, I admit.
Satan:
They're cross-fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobacco plants with lightning bugs.
Jesus Christ:
Now that's just stupid.
Satan:
Well, I agree.
 

Michael Collins  - Quotes

 
[Collins and his men have just intercepted an intelligence report from the Royal Irish Constabulary]
Michael Collins:
Jesus, these bastards know more about us than our own mothers.
 

Craig Ferguson  - Quotes

 Oh Satan you're a wily one. 

Tags: cunning   intelligence   satan     
George Carlin  - Quotes

 The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. 

Tags: america   intelligence     
Bertrand Russell  - Quotes

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



 

Tags: clever   intelligence   smart     
Maureen Dowd  - Quotes

 Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military. 

Tags: 2010   intelligence   jealousy   military   soldiers     
Chuck Palahniuk  - Quotes

 Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. 

Tags: ambition   choke   dreams   education   intelligence   lethargy   palahniuk   sloth     
Susan Sontag  - Quotes

 Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. 

Grim & Evil  - Quotes

 Master Control:
[monitor activates] I am Master Control, computer of the future.
Billy:
Aaahh! [jumps on Grim's arms]
Grim:
That'd better be sweat dripping down your leg, boy.
Master Control:
I am programmed to run all of the machines at this attraction. My intelligence is beyond measure, I know everything there is to know, and I'm not too shabby at checkers.
Grim:
Wait, how can you know *everything*?
Master Control:
I just do, so there.
Grim:
If you know everything, then what's the meaning of life?
Master Control:
Life has no meaning, only machine intelligence is truly important on a cosmic scale.
Grim:
Hmm, I didn't think he'd get that one right.
Billy:
Oh, yeah? Then what's my favorite color?
Master Control:
Blue.
Billy:
What's the best kind of bean?
Master Control:
Pinto.
Billy:
Why is the sky blue?
Master Control:
Because of the refraction of sunlight through the water droplets in the sky.
Billy:
Why do I ask so many questions?
Master Control:
Because you're stupid!
Billy:
What's the color of my underwear?
Master Control:
White... [raises an eyebrow]
Master Control:
... with pink frilly lace.
Billy:
[checks in his pants] Wow. It really does know everything.
 

Aaron Levenstein  - Quotes

 I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. 

Tags: emotions   intelligence   timing     
Kevin Smith  - Quotes

 Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. 

Tags: controversy   diversity   intelligence     
Once Upon a Time in Mexico  - Quotes

 Sands:
My name is Sheldon Jeffery Sands. I work for the Central Intelligence Agency. I throw shapes. I throw shapes, I set them up, I watch them fall. I'm living la vida loca.
 

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me  - Quotes

 
[Noticing Dr. Evil's spaceship on radar]
Radar Operator:
Colonel, you better have a look at this radar.
Colonel:
What is it, son?
Radar Operator:
I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant...
Jet Pilot:
Dick. Dick, take a look out of starboard.
Co-Pilot:
Oh my God, it looks like a huge...
Bird-Watching Woman:
Pecker.
Bird-Watching Man:
[raising binoculars] Ooh, Where?
Bird-Watching Woman:
Over there. What sort of bird is that? Wait, it's not a woodpecker, it looks like someone's...
Army Sergeant:
Privates. We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...
Baseball Umpire:
Two balls. [looking up from game]
Baseball Umpire:
What is that. It looks just like an enormous...
Chinese Teacher:
Wang. pay attention.
Wang:
I was distracted by that giant flying...
Musician:
Willie.
Willie:
Yeah?
Musician:
What's that?
Willie:
[squints] Well, that looks like a huge...
Colonel:
Johnson.
Radar Operator:
Yes, sir?
Colonel:
Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this.
 

Albert Camus  - Quotes

 An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.  

Tags: intellectuals   intelligence   philosophy   scholars     
Craig Ferguson  - Quotes

 With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you 

Tags: intelligence   parody     
Men in Black II  - Quotes

 Undercover alien intelligence officer:
I could be Agent M.
 

Tags: Intelligence Quotes     
Heartbreakers  - Quotes

 Jack Withrowe:
Hi. Can I get you a drink?
Page Conners:
Wow! I've never heard that one before. You really blow me away with your creativity.
Jack Withrowe:
Well, I...
Page Conners:
"Well, I, uh..." Your recovery's even better! Do you even care at all who I am? I mean, I could be the Antichrist or have the intelligence of a thermos, but unfortunately *those* are not the matters the male penis ponders. So please tell me, why did you walk all the way over here to ask to get me a drink?
Jack Withrowe:
Well, because... I'm the bartender.
 

Tags: Ale Quotes   Age Quotes   Intelligence Quotes     
Nelson Mandela  - Quotes

 A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. 

Tags: education   goodness   intelligence   kindness   scholarship     
Lena Horne  - Quotes

 Always be smarter than the people who hire you. 

Tags: bosses   employers   employment   intelligence   jobs   work     
Neal Stephenson  - Quotes

 Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. 

Tags: atheism   christianity   church   intelligence     
Marie Curie  - Quotes

 Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. 

Tags: curiousity   gossip   humanity   ideas   intelligence     
Louis Zukofsky  - Quotes

 Infinite is a meaningless word: except  

Tags: addition   infinity   intelligence   math   mathematics   mind   thought     
Resident Evil: Extinction  - Quotes

 White Queen:
I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you, I am the artificial intelligence which...
Alice:
Yeah I know what you are, I knew your sister, she was a homicidal bitch.
White Queen:
My sister computer was merely following the most logical path of preservation of human life.
Alice:
Yeah kill a few save a lot.
 

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Alexander Hamilton  - Quotes

 He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. 

Tags: bravery   conviction   ignorance   intelligence   stand   strength   stupidity   wisdom     
Burn After Reading  - Quotes

 
[after having found a CD they believe contains files of the CIA]
Linda Litzke:
You should put up a note in the ladies locker room.
Chad Feldheimer:
Put up a note? "Highly classified shit found: Raw intelligence shit, CIA shit?" Hello, anybody lose their secret CIA shit? I don't think so!
 

Aldous Huxley  - Quotes

 Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. 

Tags: causality   error   intelligence   theories     
Abigail Adams  - Quotes

 These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. 

Tags: challenge   genius   heroism   intelligence   trial     
Andy Warhol  - Quotes

 Beauty is a sign of intelligence. 

Tags: beauty   intelligence     
Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. 

Tags: intelligence   quotation     
Harlan Ellison  - Quotes

 You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. 

Tags: ignorance   intelligence   opinions   stupidity     
Lost in Space  - Quotes

 Will Robinson:
Oh, shit.
Dr. Zachary Smith:
A boy of your intelligence should never swear... Oh, shit.
 

Tags: Will Quotes   Intelligence Quotes     
My Super Ex-Girlfriend  - Quotes

 Matt Saunders:
You're that Bedlam guy.
Professor Bedlam:
Professor Bedlam.
Matt Saunders:
The super villain.
Professor Bedlam:
Please, I am not super. I am not a villain. I'm just a regular man like yourself with 10,000 more money, intelligence and taste.
 

George Orwell  - Quotes

 Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. 

Tags: brainwashing   ignorance   intelligence   manipulate     
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?  - Quotes

 Zack:
Ivy, we're smart people. So why do we always do things that make us look like we have the intelligence of beef jerky?
 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. 

Tags: intelligence     
Albert Einstein  - Quotes

 It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. 

Tags: intelligence   learning   wisdom     
Susan Sontag  - Quotes

 Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.  

Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 

Tags: enemies   friends   friendship   hatred   intelligence   knowledge   love   wisdom     
The Good Shepherd  - Quotes

 
[from trailer]
Bill Sullivan:
You understand that whatever we discuss here doesn't leave this room?
Edward Wilson:
Of course.
Bill Sullivan:
The president has asked me to look into creating a foreign intelligence agency.
 

Tags: Intelligence Quotes     
Adrian Mitchell  - Quotes

 People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. 

Tags: freedom   intelligence   liberty   stupidity     
Abigail Adams  - Quotes

 The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. 

Tags: challenge   intelligence   trial     
Il silenzio dei prosciutti  - Quotes

 Dwarf Guard:
Dr. Animal's intelligence goes beyond the borders of the human mind. His savagery goes beyond the borders of the animal!
Joe:
How could he go beyond so many borders without a passport?
 

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Ann Druyan  - Quotes

 The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.  

Tags: decisions   democracy   economy   intelligence   literate   science   society   thought   wise     
George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.  

Tags: chess   intelligence   stupidity     
Naguib Mahfouz  - Quotes

 Madness is the acme of intelligence.

 

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Frans de Waal  - Quotes

 If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be? 

Tags: chimpanzees   humanity   intelligence   primates     
Tomb Hackers  - Quotes

 Rob Moore:
[while being electrocuted by the Artificial Intelligence Being] Jack, this hurts really bad!
Jack Loot:
Oh it's not that bad! It just feels like a deep tissue massage, except a whole lot deeper!
 

Tags: Intelligence Quotes     
The Last Sentinel  - Quotes

 Angel - Tallis' Rifle:
I am a Bio-Mech Systems advanced intellect super scope representing the top of the line in battlefield nano computers. I'm approximately four times as advanced as the regular police Drone and as close to artificial intelligence as you are ever likely to encounter. I receive my directions from Tallis' eyecap. If he dies I serve no purpose, so consequentially I also die.
 

Arthur C. Clarke  - Quotes

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

Tags: intelligence   survival     
Michael Ondaatje  - Quotes

 Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free. 

Tags: freedom   intelligence   privilege   rich   wealth     
H.G. Wells  - Quotes

 Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. 

Tags: intelligence   science     


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