Walter Bagehot Quotes

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

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

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.

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

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

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

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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!

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

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I don’t think we can pass a law that fixes stupid.

We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.