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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a read more
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
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.
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.
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.