Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The march of the human mind is slow.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.