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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    “I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
    Leo Szilard

  • #3
    Bertrand Russell
    “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
    Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

  • #4
    Groucho Marx
    “Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #5
    Bertrand Russell
    “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
    Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #15
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #16
    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #17
    Isaac Asimov
    “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #18
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #19
    Democritus
    “Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
    Democritus

  • #20
    “An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ”
    Jef Mallett

  • #21
    George Bernard Shaw
    “[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”
    George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot

  • #22
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  • #23
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #24
    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #25
    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    Confucius

  • #28
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #29
    “Life is too important to take seriously.”
    Corky Siegel

  • #30
    “EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE UNTIL YOU THINK ABOUT IT.”
    NITYA MORE



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