Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

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

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.