“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”
“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.”
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.”
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”