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If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Sep 10, 2025
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.