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If everybody’s thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking.
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
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- Intelligence
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004Dear Me (1977)
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
- Intelligence
He who thinks little, errs much.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Élie Bertrand (5 January 1759)
- Ideas
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Hocus Pocus (1990)
- Intelligence
- Pride
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
- Beauty
- Intelligence
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts1915–1973Alan Watts Teaches Meditation (1992)
The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question “Is what she says true?”
Simone Weil1909–1943Letter to her parents (1943), as quoted in the Introduction by Siân Miles
- Intelligence
- Truth & Lies
There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
Simone Weil1909–1943Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
- Intelligence
- Pride
Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.
Simone Weil1909–1943Human Personality (1943), p. 69
- Intelligence
- Truth & Lies
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough⁠—as most wrong theories are!
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter VIIn context
- Ideas