Intellectual Limitations Quotes

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

A .. characteristic of progressive politicians is that they tend to be high-IQ stupid people. They are bright and well-educated but can’t comprehend the implications of policy.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter.