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"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools"
Ernest Hemingway
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The greatest scholars are not the wisest men"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart"
Howard Gardner
"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
Immanuel Kant
"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do"
Jean Piaget
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
Philip Roth
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"
Charles Darwin
"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius"
Peter Thiel
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul"
John Keats
"Much learning does not teach understanding"
Heraclitus
"An intelligent person aims at being kind and the ability to be kind is the highest of the arts and the most like the work of God"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Common sense ain't common."
Will Rogers
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
Will Rogers
"If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out?"
Will Rogers
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