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

“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

- 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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“The first thing you've got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.”
Fred MacMurray - Lt. Tom Keefer

“- Mr. Esmond Sr.: Say, they told me you were stupid! You don't sound stupid to me!
- Lorelei Lee: I can be smart when it's important.”
Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond Jr.
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“I'm so smart, it's a disease.”
Jack Carson - Wally Fay

“Don't ever apologize for being the smartest one in the room.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Quentin Beck

“- Governor Kolp: So speech makes them human?
- Soldier: Speech makes them intelligent. And intelligence makes them not human, but humane.”

Severn Darden - Governor Kolp
Cal Wilson - Soldier

“It's a shame that I didn't marry someone who was my intellectual equal.”

James Mason - Ed Avery

“Sometimes, big shot, you don't seem to give me credit for very much intelligence at all. I've been to school in my life - and I'm a magazine reader!”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan