Quotes of: Average-intelligence Keyword

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Ted Nugent

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Neil Patrick Harris

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Hanna Rosin

I'm an outdoorsy guy, but I also enjoy the average teenager stuff - video games, movies, hanging with friends. I'm just a normal guy!

Nathan Kress

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

Austin Ligon

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Andy Warhol

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

Love

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

Uma Thurman

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

Warren Farrell

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Will Smith

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

Hans Rosling

The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advance...

Galileo Galilei

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt su...

The Austere Academy

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a pr...

Hunger

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we to...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solve...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be ...

Notes from Underground

To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary. He told us to be not only 'as harmless as doves', but also 'as wise as serpents'. He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. He wants us to be simple, single-m...

Mere Christianity