Unconventional Intelligence Quotes

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

I'm wired differently.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

Harold is a bastard, but he is a genius.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.