Intellect quotes
37 intellect quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Algiers
“- Inspector Slimane: When one can't use guns, one must work with brains.
- Commissioner Janvier: I prefer guns!
- Inspector Slimane: In your case, honest sir, such a preference is unavoidable.” - From the movie: Sleepy Hollow
“- Young Masbath: A strange sort of witch, with a kind and loving heart. How can you think so?
- Ichabod Crane: I have good reason.
- Young Masbath: Then you are bewitched by reason.
- Ichabod Crane: I am beaten down by it!” “Bunny, you don't have to live your life to please me. The important thing is that you're happy. And as for what I've taught you, well, listen, I've always believed that every woman should get as much education and intellectual stimulation as possible, and that she should develop her mental abilities to their utmost potential.”
- From the TV Series: Young Sheldon
- From the TV Series: 2 Broke Girls
“I know they're smart because they're the first people to order the Croque Monsieur as Croque Monsieur and not Crock Monster.”
- From the animation: Futurama
“I hate these nerds! Just because I’m stupider than them they think they’re smarter than me!”
- From the TV Series: Westworld
“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building. Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn’t matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Thunder Force
“I’m not a nerd. I’m smart. There’s a difference.”
- From the TV Series: The Big Bang Theory
“Sheldon doesn’t know when he’s being mean because the part of his brain that should know is getting a wedgie from the rest of his brain.”
- From the movie: Superman
“No one, nothing is smarter than the Krang!”
- From the movie: The Rescuers Down Under
“Who do you think you're messing with, you dumb animal? My mental facilities are twice what yours are, you pea brain!”
- From the movie: The Petrified Forest
“- Alan Squier: I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
- Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you've got brains!
- Alan Squier: Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.” - From the animation: The Lord of the Rings
“Sam Gamgee, your legs are too short, so use your head!”
- From the movie: Barton Fink
“The doctor, what's he gonna tell me? Can't trade my head in for a new one.”
- From the movie: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“- Sherlock Holmes: Very effective, my dear Watson!
- Doctor John H. Watson: Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary.” - From the movie: Superman
“Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.”
- From the movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
“A good officer uses his head, not his whip.”
- From the movie: Jefferson in Paris
“- Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart.
- Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins.
- Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart.” - From the movie: The Expendables
- From the movie: Breakin'
“Some people love you for your body. Me, it's your charming wit.”
- From the movie: Dancer in the Dark
- From the movie: Free Enterprise
- From the movie: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
“- Dr. Cardigan: What a wonderful contribution to science your brain would make, Mr. Chan!
- Charlie Chan: Thank you so much, but for present would prefer to keep same for own use.” - From the movie: The Shop Around the Corner
“I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter... which doesn't work.”
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