It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
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