Mental Capacity Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

A second-class intellect—but a first-class temperament!

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Jerry's the only man I ever knew who's so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

I never said I was a genius.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

The frontal region of the Negro skull has been repeatedly shown to be much smaller than that of the Caucasian. Considering this fact, the conclusion is reached that the Negro has a smaller proportion of the faculties pertaining to the frontal lobe than the Caucasian. The Negro, then, lacks reason, judgment, apperception, affection, self-control, will power, orientation, ethical and esthetic attributes, and the relation of the ego (of personality or self) to environment…. The skull capacity of the Negro has been repeatedly demonstrated to be less than that of the Caucasian

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.