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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.
Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.