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Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Looks fade. Brains don't.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

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 best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

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