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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.
Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.