“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
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“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex”
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer”
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. ”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself ”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think ”
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ”
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant ”
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics”
“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart ”
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly ”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know ”
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again ”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ”
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body”
“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness”
“The less men think, the more they talk. ”