A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson MandelaTags: intelligence kindness education goodness scholarship
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan EllisonTags: intelligence opinions stupidity ignorance
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane AustenTags: intelligence reason opposition rationality compliments agreement discussion disdain
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
Albert CamusTags: intelligence philosophy intellectuals scholars
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 RussellTags: intelligence strength freedom courage thought freedom-of-thought independence fearlessness defiance free-thinker
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa AltherTags: intelligence attitude
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G.H. HardyTags: intelligence g-h-hardy mensa
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Abigail AdamsTags: intelligence carpe-diem genius trial heroism challenge trying-times
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor HugoTags: imagination intelligence reason
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter LippmannTags: intelligence thought
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