Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Thought is a strenuous art – few practice it, and then only at rare times.
Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
One thought fills immensity.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.
