Intelligent Quotes

Intelligent Quotes

1. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
--Albert Einstein

2. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
--André Gide

3. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

4. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
--Aryeh Frimer

5. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
--Bill Vaughan

6. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
--Blaise Pascal

7. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
--Cale Yarborough

8. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
--Charles F. Kettering

9. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
--Christopher Hampton

10. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
--Cyril Connolly

11. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
--Dame Edna Everage

12. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
--Edith Sitwell

13. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
--Ellen Goodman
14. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Ellen Parr

15. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
--Erica Jong

16. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
--Gordon R. Dickson

17. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
--Lily Tomlin

18. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
--Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)

19. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
--Oscar Wilde

20. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
--Thomas Szasz