Barbara Walters on genius

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people.  They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

~ Barbara Walters

Richard Feynman on education vs. intelligence

Never confuse education with intelligence; you can have a PhD and still be an idiot. 

~ Richard Feynman, American physicist

Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building

Ernest Hemingway on happiness and intelligence

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Warren Buffett on investing and intelligence

You don't need to be a rocket scientist.  Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ.

~ Warren Buffett

Kevin Duffy on speculative manias and IQ

IQ is cyclical.  Mine always goes down during speculative manias.  After a 12-yr bull market, I'm now a moron, dangerously close to an idiot.

~ Kevin Duffy, tweet, February 22, 2021

Caitlin Johnstone on propaganda and intelligence

Being susceptible to propaganda has very little to do with intelligence. You will notice that some of the smartest people you know not only fervently believe the propaganda, they are able to gaslight themselves and others more effectively than most with their own clever arguments. A high IQ does not inoculate you against propaganda, in fact it can work against you because agile minds are able to create the most convincing kinds of reframes.

~ Caitlin Johnstone, "The Fact That Americans Need to be Deceived Into War Shows Their Underlying Goodness," LewRockwell.com, June 24, 2019

Thomas Sowell on the cause of great tragedies of history

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

~ Thomas Sowell

Paul Krugman defends his intelligence, suggests he is actually just evil

Get your insults right. There is, I believe, a fair bit of evidence against the hypothesis that I’m stupid. What you mean to say is that I’m evil.

~Paul Krugman, NYT columnist and Nobel laureate, "Notes to Commenters", NYT.com, January 11, 2011

Einstein on human stupidity

Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

~ Albert Einstein