Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

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!

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

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

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.