There is no limit to intelligence… or to ignorance.
Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes
In the United States it was precisely the capability of IQ tests to ferret beneath superficial qualities of race, ethnicity, and social class that made it possible to turn up instance after instance of young people brimming with superior talent yet denied admission to the nation’s elite schools, while far less talented “gentlemen” of the […]
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intel- ligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. […]
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
The overvaluation of intelligence among cultured people in our country has reached a frightening degree. Not only our public schools and our colleges and universities, but also our research institutions give the impression that the intelligence test is the only criterion of man’s mental endowment… It is as if imagination, moral courage, creative facilities were […]
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I […]
