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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Intelligence
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
Will Durant1885–1981And Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)
- Ideas
What once was thought can never be unthought.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt1921–1990
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylanborn 1941The Guardian (13 February 1992)
- Ideas
- Music
What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 53.
- Intelligence
- Money
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Genius
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Ideas
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Ideas
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Ideas
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein1879–1955From “Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, New York Times (25 May 1946), and later quoted in the article “The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man” by Michael Amrine, from the New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946)
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
- Intelligence
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein1879–1955From “Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, New York Times (25 May 1946), and later quoted in the article “The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man” by Michael Amrine, from the New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946)
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein1879–1955