Smart Quotes
(After eight thousand unsuccessful trials on a nicked-iron storage batter) Well, at least we know eight thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
(Intellectuals) have a preference for learning things rather than experiencing them.
- Margaret Anderson
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
- Brander Matthews
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- Benjamin Franklin
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring vanloads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.
- Harvey Ullman