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 […]
Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes
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 […]
There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him.
The voice of intelligence. . . is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the society of kings.
