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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.