#intelligence

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"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"

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

"Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care."

"I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"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."

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"<...> I’venever believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so."

"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."

"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?"

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

"The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles."

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"