“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ―Oscar Wilde
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ―Maya Angelou
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” ―Frank McCourt
“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” ―Albert Einstein
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”―Walter Cronkite
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ―Harlan Ellison
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov
“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.” ― Nelson Mandela
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“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.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.” ― George R.R. Martin
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”― Carl Gustav Jung
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”― J. Krishnamurti
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”― Woodrow Wilson
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”― Marie Curie
“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”― P.G. Wodehouse
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”― Zig Ziglar
“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”― Terry Pratchett
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”― Antonio Gramsci
“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.”― J.D. Salinger
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”― Walter H. Cottingham
“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”― Frank Herbert
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn’t understood.”― Wei Hui
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”― Oscar Wilde
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”― Maya Angelou
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”― Albert Einstein
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”― Frank McCourt
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”― Walter Cronkite
“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”― Albert Einstein
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.― Søren Kierkegaard
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”― Oscar Wilde
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”― Harlan Ellison
“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.”― Albert Camus
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”― Isaac Asimov
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”― Virginia Woolf
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“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.― Nelson Mandela
“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.”― Susan Sontag