Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

Intelligence is not a science.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Brainy's the new sexy.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I never said I was a genius.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

Intelligence is capital.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.