“Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
“...tienes un problema muy complicado con una solución muy sencilla.”
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
“Oh, yes. I m terribly smart. Wouldn t it have been nice... to be intelligent?”
“Controversial as we all know, is often a euphemism for interesting and intelligent.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“Your brain doesn t know what it cannot do until you tell it.”
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.”
“The only means of strengthening one s intellect is to make up one s mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“It is not that I m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”