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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Intelligence
What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
- Intelligence
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- America
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Genius
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises (14 June 1953)
- Ideas
So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790The Autobiography (1818), Part I, p. 28
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech delivered to the Dail (Parliament of Ireland) (28 June 1963)
- Ideas
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
?UnattributedOften credited to William James
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
?UnattributedOften credited to Joseph Stalin
- Guns
- Ideas
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 32.
- Ideas
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 42e
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Ideas
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant1906–1972
- Genius
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882