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Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Information is not knowledge.

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.

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.