There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
We don't have to be brilliant.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
Remember, half the people you know are below average.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.
