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- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
- Liz Trotta on John Chancellor
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
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