The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
She has man's brain-a brain that a man should have were he much gifted-and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.
To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.
More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.
Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
belief is the death of intelligence.
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
What should I do - how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.
The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.
Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
I've never had an intelligent conversation with a beautiful woman. But then, I've never had an intelligent conversation. Or talked to a beautiful woman.
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer,” he added jokingly.
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.
I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.
We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.
Knowledge inside us, is a gift that can never be returned.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
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 intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.
Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.
No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.
The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.