The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.Bertrand Russell
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.J. B. Smoove
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.Johannes Kepler
We measure the intelligence of an individual by the quantity of uncertainties he is capable of bearing.Immanuel Kant
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.Brian W. Kernighan
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.Socrates
Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.Paul Davies
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.Robert G. Ingersoll
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.Fyodor Dostoevsky
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.Warren Buffett
The ability to intelligently fill your free time is the highest degree of personal culture.Bertrand Russell
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.Naguib Mahfouz
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.Michael Merzenich
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.H. L. Mencken
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.Jean Piaget