"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
― Stephen Leacock
Topic(s):
Intelligence
More From Stephen Leacock
- "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
- "It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
- "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
More In Intelligence
- "But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."― Vernor Vinge
- "Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."― Bryant H. McGill
- "Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind."― George William Curtis