Quotes About Unintelligent

#1. One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

Matthew Arnold

#2. Our 'responses' determine our results...How about an 'intelligent' response to 'unintelligent' behavior or treatment. It is powerful if we can do that !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#3. The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

H.L. Mencken

#4. When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

Mark Twain

#5. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Lao-Tzu

#6. Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#8. I'm not too unintelligent.

Tom Felton

#9. An intelligent home differs from an unintelligent one chiefly in that the habits of life and intercourse which prevail are chosen, or at least colored, by the thought of their bearing upon the development of children.

John Dewey

#10. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

Gordon MacDonald

#11. It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.

P.D. James

#12. They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces.

Henry James

#13. The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people who have it best.

Gregor Collins

#14. It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

Eric Hoffer

#15. In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

Philip Johnson

#16. War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Jayne Mansfield

#17. People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

Jenny Slate

#19. Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It
has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

Margaret Sanger

#20. Luna has told me all about you, young lady,' said Xenophilius, 'you are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' 'Perhaps you ought to try on the hat, Hermione,' said Ron, nodding towards the ludicrous headdress. His voice shook with the strain of not laughing.

J.K. Rowling

#21. To the best account; it is an unintelligent waste of strength.

Will Durant

#22. What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. The actuality of these spiritual qualities is thus imprisoned, though their potentiality be not quite destroyed; and thus a crass, extended, impenetrable, passive, divisible, unintelligent substance is generated, which we call matter.Cheyn.Phil. Prin.

Samuel Johnson

#25. You're an idiot,' said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. 'Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can't get out out of it because she's too awkward.

Alice Oseman

#26. That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Anonymous

#27. He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

Herbert Simon

#29. Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

Osho

#30. I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's

Nicholas Sparks

#31. Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#32. If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.

Donald Trump

#33. Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

Robert Ludlum

#34. Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

Evelyn Waugh

#35. They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

H.L. Mencken

#36. Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

Chanakya

#37. Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Ernest Bevin

#38. Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

Chanakya

#39. The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#40. Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

H.L. Mencken

#41. I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool ...

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#42. I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Timothy Spall

#43. Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Honore De Balzac

#44. It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.

Jonathan Stroud

#45. you are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.

Victoria Aveyard

#46. It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?

Soren Kierkegaard

#47. An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Leo Tolstoy

#48. Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious.

Marianne Moore

#49. Zombies were an accident - much like champagne and penicillin, but much less welcome. Necromancers weren't working on a way to turn people into shambling pieces of unintelligent rot- - Kenspeckle

Derek Landy

#50. To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#51. What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

Jack Newfield

#54. There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Tim Robbins

#55. If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.

Anonymous

#56. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.

Heather Chapple

#57. Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

Thiruvalluvar