Clarence Darrow Quotes

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

I am not a normal man.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

I'm the one that's used to being not normal.

I feel like no one plays the game to be normal, average. Or I don't.

I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Sanity is not statistical.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

No one was normal, not really.

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.