Intellectual Deterioration Quotes

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !