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Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.
A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.
That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.