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

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

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

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

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

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I got my own back.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

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.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Nobody is my boss.

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.

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.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

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.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.