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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised