252 quotes found
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelli...”
“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
“These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that were not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply dont have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we...”
“Being ninty nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.”
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
“He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprin...”
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle....”
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
“Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice youre a nerd is like saying, Hey, I notice that youd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that youd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe th...”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
“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...”
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present ...”
