Intelligence Gap Quotes

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

We live in a society where not everybody has intelligence, or understanding or is thinking of what's right and what's wrong.

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.