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Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.