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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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.

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 varying 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 urging 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.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

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 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.

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

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Information is not knowledge.

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.

Intelligence forbids tears.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

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

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

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

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

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.