#intelligence

"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."

"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."

"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

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

"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."

"The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care."

"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."

"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"."

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

"An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions."

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."

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

"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."

"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."

"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."

"Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition."