“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don t even need or want to look intelligent anymore.”
“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’.”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
“Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”
“I think a man s wordplay can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!”
“Eroticize intelligence.”
“I don t fancy colors of the face, I m always attracted to colors of the brain.”
“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
“In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.”
“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I ve got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don t know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature s provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.”
“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.”