All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.
They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.
If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.
When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.
I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
I have a simple, simple brain.
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.
The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.
