Mental Deficiency Quotes

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

He is but one degree removed from an idiot.

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

I am not too intelligent.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

...it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.