"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own." ― Henry Adams Topic(s): Intelligence More From Henry Adams "Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels." "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." More In Intelligence "The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."― George H. Mead "It’s very hard for a woman in comedy. It’s hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians."― Margaret Cho "Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient."― Charles Williams