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.

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.

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.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

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.

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.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.