Culture Quote by Fran Lebowitz

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence…

— Paul Bremer

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument…

— Susan Sontag

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they…

— Vernon A. Walters

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.”

— Georg Groddeck

“Reversed stupidity is not intelligence”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or…

— Ernest Hemingway

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

— Frank Zappa

As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.

— Howard Gardner

“Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it…

— Wyndham Lewis

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

— Deepak Chopra