Perceived Intelligence Quotes

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

People say Dolphins are intelligent and that but they’ve never done anything that have blown me away. They say I’m a div and Dolphins are intelligent…It just baffles me.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.