Alexander Woollcott Quotes

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

I want to have all of my faculties.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

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

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.