252 quotes found
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring fr...”
“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”
“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
“The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding s...”
“The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.”
“Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.”
“With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.”
“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”
“I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a c...”
“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.”
“Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.”
“Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.”
“But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.”
“I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.”
“An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods”
“[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own st...”
“People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.”
“How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have co...”
“We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.”
“I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.”
