No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. Charles Stross
About three hundred years ago, it was decreed by the Chief Circle that, since women are deficient in Reason but abundant in Emotion, they ought no longer to be treated as rational, nor receive any mental education. Edwin Abbott Abbott
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. Washington Irving
Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, "Oh, that's different from my perspective – tell me more.”. Warren Farrell
We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They want only slogans and obedience. Karl Jaspers