A little folly now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
– Anonymous
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
– Martin Fischer
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
– Albert Einstein
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
– William Allen White
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
– Susan Sontag
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
– Albert Camus
A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.
– Anonymous
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
– Salvador Dali
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
– Anonymous
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
– Josh Billings
A modest little person with much to be modest about.
– Winston Churchill
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
– William Blake
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
– Harold Rosenberg
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
– J. Krishnamurti
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
– Lena Horne
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
– William Cowper
Genius is only a form of sustained patience.
– Donald Murray
Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.
– Cynthia Copeland Lewis