Intelligence
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Out there in this great land of ours dwell a significant number of people who fool you by walking upright.
P&G defender in the WSJ
For god’s sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
James Michener—The Drifters
If one family of dinosaurs survived on earth, some son-of-a-bitch from West Oklahoma would claim the right to shoot the male.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he that is not aware that he is wise.
Isaac Asimov
I could carve a better man out of a banana.
Thomas Beverly wrote a book in 1698 proving the world has already ended without anybody noticing it.
There is a difference between unintelligible and unintelligent remarks.
A person is not rewarded for having brains, only for using them.
Salada Tea Tag Lines
Research is no substitute for wisdom. The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
William Manchester
I certainly can’t reason with people who don’t want to be reasonable.
Phil Plait
Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
Failures are guaranteed.
Learning from them is optional.
Frazz
I occasionally have to demonstrate I know how to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
SwiftOnSecurity
In a perfect socialist society, reading comprehension and the capacity to understand irony and satire will be redistributed equitably.
Popehat
Learning will never hurt you. Only the man who knows too little knows too much. It is only when you undertake to use what you have learned that you discover whether you can transform knowledge into performance.
Nero Wolfe
You’re not the dumbest person on the planet, but you’d sure better hope he doesn’t die.
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Not Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln
There are some ideas so absurd
that only a lawyer could believe them.
