46 Movie Quotes about Intelligence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about intelligence, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Genius, I tell you. That bunny's a genius.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 They look intelligent. -No, not likely. That bulge on the head is solid bone.

Quote from X Minus One

3 All my life, I have lived with one creed: The human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even the elements.

William Conrad as Leiningen in Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948)

4 If you're smart, you can be a hero. If you're dumb, you can be dead.

Ted De Corsia as Joseph Rico in The Enforcer (1951)

5 It's a case of very little brain going bad.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 But I had something far, far greater. My amazing intellect and knack for building objects of mayhem.

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

7 Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of... Quest. Thing.

Peregrin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

8 Which by Krell standards classifies me as a low-grade moron.

Walter Pidgeon as Morbius in Forbidden Planet (1956)

9 I will have you know that I have more talent and more intelligence in my little finger than you do in your entire body, sir.

Christina Applegate as Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

10 Yes, yes. Maybe he is intelligent, but he's also, uh, crazy.

Roddy McDowall as Cornelius in Planet of the Apes (1968)