Categories Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

— Mark Twain

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the…

— James Sharp

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

— Edward Thorndike

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

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“It is wrong that we associate the word 'dumb', especially pertaining to animals, with the inability to communicate in a common communal 'tongue' -…

— Stafford Samuel Lakay

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at…

— Douglas Coupland

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their…

— Hippolyte Taine

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

— Harold Lloyd

“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites…

— Carl Sagan

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

— Bette Greene