Intelligence quotes

“Look, Miss Snit, a girl does not get anywhere by acting intelligent! I mean, take a look at you and me. You chose books, I chose looks. I have a nice house, a wonderful husband and you are slaving away teaching snot-nosed children their ABCs.”
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating.”
Jim Parsons

“You know what the problem is with being the smartest person in the world? Everyone else seems stupid!”
Jim Carrey - Dr. Ivo Robotnik

“- Elio: I think he was better than me. I think he was better than me.
- Mr. Perlman: I'm sure he'd say the same thing about you. Which flatters you both.”

Timothée Chalamet - Elio
Michael Stuhlbarg - Mr. Perlman

“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
David Spade

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

“In some ways you're far superior to my Cocker Spaniel.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis

“A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.”
Mako - Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto

- Anne Uumellmahaye: Michael, you do so much for me, and I do nothing for you.
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Are you out of your head? Sorry, I forgot. As far as I'm concerned, you're the most complete woman I've ever known. All my life, I wanted women with great bodies, women who were "Tens". Now, for the first time, I'm aroused by a mind.
Sissy Spacek - Anne Uumellmahaye
Steve Martin - Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr

“- Lampy: Legs would help, you know.
- Kirby: Brains wouldn't hurt either.”
Timothy Stack - Lampy
Thurl Ravenscroft - Kirby

“I didn't go to college. I don't know anybody who did. Bunch of hippies and cesspool salesmen.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.”
David Steinberg

“He's brave, like a cowboy should be. And kind, and smart. But the thing that makes Woody special, is he'll never give up on you... ever.”

John Morris - Andy

“I am not stupid. I read poetry.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Paxton

“Being attracted to really smart women is a double-edged sword.”
Penn Badgley - Joe Goldberg

“I’m exceedingly smart. I graduated college at fourteen. While my brother was getting an STD, I was getting a Ph.D.”
Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper

“The successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be.”
Joseph Wiseman - Dr. No

“No man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is. We will always be underestimated, and that is what we use.”
Anne Hathaway - Josephine Chesterfield

“Brilliance should be acknowledged.”
Jeremy Strong - Matthew

“He's a fox, and foxes have a predictable nature. Trust this Jew about that Jew. If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere.”

Michelle Dockery - Rosalind Pearson

“Confidence. A fool's substitute for intelligence.”
Jim Carrey - Dr. Ivo Robotnik

“It says you're too sexy to be smart, but not smart enough to be sexy.”
Liv Hewson - Lily Balin

“I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.”
Bella Heathcote

“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
Thelma Ritter - Stella

I'm too "smart" to be brave!
Fred MacMurray - Lt. Tom Keefer