It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.''
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
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