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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.