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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.