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.

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.

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.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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 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.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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.