Douglas Adams Quotes

Kids are so shrewd.

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.