Gene Spafford Quotes

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

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.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

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.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

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

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

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.

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

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.