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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
When you know better you do better.
The time is always right to do what is right.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Knowledge is power.
I think; therefore I am.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Looks fade. Brains don't.
Wit is educated insolence.
The color of truth is gray.
