What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average read more

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which read more

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it read more

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.