Henry Adams Quotes

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

I don't have a complex mind.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Human intelligence trumps electronic or signals intelligence every time.

I'm pretty smart.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.