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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Concentration, the suspension of time, an unobtrusive wit.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ...
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
Wit,
the pupil of the soul's clear eye.
Too much wit makes the world rotten.
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Death has no wit
Wit beyond measure is mans greatest treasure
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!
My wit is only as stupid as the audience.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Stupid to the power of stupid.
Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit..
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.
If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
My intellect, my wit - I'd forgotten I'd even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others who prized thought over action, laughter over brooding, they blossomed and sharpened. My tongue fairly tripped with sparkling phrases, insightful comments.
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
I have more zeal than wit.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.