Delinquent Quote by B. F. Skinner

“Travis Hirschi found that delinquents tended to have lower IQs than nondelinquents. This study also found that a lower IQ meant a person was…

— Steven Briggs

“I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile…

— Robert A. Heinlein

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

— Sigmund Freud

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to…

— Robert Baden-Powell

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

— George Orwell

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

— Rajneesh

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

— Daniel Goleman

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile…

— Eric Hoffer

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective…

— William James