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    One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

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    One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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    One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

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    Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

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    Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

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    People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

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    Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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    People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

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    Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

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    Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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    Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

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    Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

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    Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

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    Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

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    Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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    Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

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    Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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    Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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    Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

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    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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    That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

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    The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

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    The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

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    The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

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    The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

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    The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

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    The color of truth is gray.

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    The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

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    The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

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    The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

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    The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

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    The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

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    The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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    The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

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    The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

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    The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.

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    The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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    The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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    The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

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    The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

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    The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

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    The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

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    The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

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    The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

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    The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

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    The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

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    The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

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    The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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    There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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    The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.