61 Movie Quotes about Intelligence (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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.

41 You belong side by side, you should never be apart 'cause when you're both together, you're really twice as smart.

Belle From Beauty And The Beast in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

42 Well, that's very nicely put. Yes, comparing my intellect with a cigarette lighter that doesn't work.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

43 A bright child? -Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head. -So can a calculator.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull; Embeth Davidtz as Miss Honey in Matilda (1996)

44 Look, Miss Snit. A girl does not get anywhere by acting intelligent.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

45 Haven't you had enough of this stuff? You know, you lose IQ points the longer you watch. There have been actual studies.

Ally Sheedy as Stephanie Speck in Short Circuit (1986)

46 Oh my God! Are all geniuses as stupid as you?

Ally Sheedy as Stephanie Speck in Short Circuit (1986)

47 Smart as paint you are, lad. Smart as paint.

Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island

48 Ask it a question of advanced physics. It's got a brain with a lifetime of knowledge, it should find it simple.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

49 For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: The wheel, New York, wars and on. Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

50 Or maybe it's not that they're so smart. Maybe it's that we're so stupid.

William Holden as J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)