Laurence J. Peter on intelligence

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 51 “The Goal of Human Existence” (1943)

• God
• Thinking

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11

• Happiness

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969

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