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Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister: Su Tung-p'o
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.: Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.: Remy de Gourmont
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.: Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.: Tom Wolfe (1931 - ), "Bonfire of the Vanities"
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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