Quotes About Mental Deficiency

#1. Here Ibn Hawqal, about 970, found some 300 mosques, and 300 schoolteachers who were highly regarded by the inhabitants "in spite of the fact," says the geographer, "that schoolteachers are notorious for their mental deficiency and light brains.

Will Durant

#2. 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.

Douglas Fairbanks

#3. The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

#4. Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#5. So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

#6. It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#7. A occasional whiff of his personality drifted back to me.

Raymond Chandler

#8. Just as nuclear fuel will always be reactive, people will always be greedy. We need to enforce rules to balance natural greed with capital requirements so that greed can create productive risk taking and competition and not short-term extraction, otherwise known as theft.

Dylan Ratigan

#9. Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?

Steven Wright

#10. I wear my faith on my sleeve."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#11. Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

Kaley Cuoco

#12. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby

#13. If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

Oscar Robertson

#14. The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

Molly Crabapple