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For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Information is not knowledge.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Intelligence forbids tears.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.