Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
Great minds think for themselves.
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
The intelligent man is never bored.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you’re given the mistake first and then it’s up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Dare to think for yourself.