“Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.”
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Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
Source: Saint Denis
“When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
Source: The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and Made English from the Originals, with Occasional Notes, To Explain what is Obscure; and Show how Far the Several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of All the Parts of Knowledge, Have Been Executed to the Present Time
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
“Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.”
“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”
Source: The Opium of the Intellectuals
“Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.”
“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
Source: Leacock on Life
Source: Last Chance To See