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

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo...

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love