Cognitive Disadvantage Quotes

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

The more irrational you make your opponent, the more control you have over him in the ring.

As long as inheritance lasts, there will be hereditary economic inequality—not the natural inequality of individuals, but the artificial inequality of classes—which will necessarily continue to be expressed in hereditary inequality of the development and cultivation of intelligence and will remain the source and sanction of all political and social inequality.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.