Adopt Quote by Steven Magee

“The innocent trust their government, whereas the smart research their government to see if they are trustworthy.”

— Steven Magee

“Psychology: (103.) Unk, the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Georg Groddeck

“We need religion, government, and laws to force a level of control over our baser natures. I intend to strip away the disease that…

— James Rollins

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.”

— Saul Bellow Herzog

“The ability to gauge intelligence is itself a form of intelligence. Monkeys don’t ponder how smart monkeys are. Ditto for politicians.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World,"…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Without ethics, science would be cruelty.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Smart is overrated. Most of the harm done in this world is done by people who fancy themselves smart. And they are—book smart. But…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”

— Sigmund Freud

“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:”

— Jonathan Haidt