Imagination is more important the knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.