Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Intelligence and the Mind

The Top Ten

1 If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk? (Anonymous)

2 The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. (Terry Pratchett, from Diggers)

3 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison)

4 I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wilde)

5 Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. (Steven Wright)

6 No one in this world, so far as I know; and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me; has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. (H. L. Mencken)

7 'I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. (Milan Kundera, from Immortality)

8 She does not understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thinks we just started World War Eleven. (Joan Rivers)

9 I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a life-saving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pajamas on. (Victoria Wood)

10 It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you wag your ears? (J. M. Barrie)

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