Sayings About Lack Of Intelligence

#1. Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#2. Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

John McCarthy

#3. So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

Thierry Henry

#4. Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Orlando Bloom

#5. It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Agnes Repplier

#6. There was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

David Weber

#7. The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#8. More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.

Ezra Pound

#9. Caesar's kindnesses are conscious, done for Caesar's benefit, and Caesar no longer sees the world as a place wherein magical things can occur. Because they can't. Men and women ruin it with their impulses, desires, thoughtlessness, lack of intelligence and cupidity.

Colleen McCullough

#10. To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Sun Tzu

#11. If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hanna Arendt

#13. When someone isn't smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don't use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

Nouman Ali Khan

#14. Lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Anchee Min

#15. The CIA not only missed the invasion, it refused to admit that it had missed it. Why would anyone in his right mind invade Afghanistan, graveyard of conquerors for two thousand years? A lack of intelligence was not the cause of the failure. A lack of imagination was.

Tim Weiner

#16. Emotional health is more important than a fit body. Unknowingly most of us focus on the latter hence the lack of inner-happiness, peace, love and fulfillment.

Maddy Malhotra

#17. A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.

Pawan Mishra

#18. Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#19. We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [ ... ]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Eustace Mullins

#20. What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

Simon Morden

#21. Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

Tammara Webber

#22. Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.

Julia Middleton

#24. Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

Robert Graves

#25. The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Patrick Lencioni

#26. For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

Sheryl WuDunn

#27. CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#28. And this was to be his main point - there was one overriding reason for our failure, which was the lack of coordinated intelligence. Too many agencies, too many bureaucracies defending their corners, too many points of demarcation, insufficient centralized control.

Ian McEwan

#29. Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don't have anything more than you - they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed blocks to the outflow of this infinite creative intelligence.

Derek Rydall

#30. Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

Criss Jami

#32. This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

Robert David Steele

#33. The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack an understanding of the Spirit.

Criss Jami

#34. Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

H.L. Mencken

#35. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.

Paul Bloom

#36. There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).

Ralph Peters

#37. There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there.

Billy Corgan

#38. Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi