Intelligence

"Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood."

"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."

"I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together."

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."

"Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

"I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow."

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."