“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
“belief is the death of intelligence.”
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
“A stupid man s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm s Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”