Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
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.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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