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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
The heart is as important as the head in learning
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.