There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

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

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.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.