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The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

The color of truth is gray.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

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.