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"The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write"
Jose Saramago
"The best minds are not in government If any were business would steal them away"
Ronald Reagan
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
George Bernard Shaw
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty"
John Steinbeck
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it"
Rene Descartes
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
Rene Descartes
"Erotic intelligence thrives on the unpredictable and the unknown."
Esther Perel
"The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person using them."
Noam Chomsky
"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."
Alain de Botton
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
Ezra Pound
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men"
Roald Dahl
"No two people's intelligences are the same"
Howard Gardner
"If I know you're very good at spatial intelligence, I still don't know whether you're going to be a great surgeon or an architect"
Howard Gardner
"Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture"
Howard Gardner
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
Bertrand Russell
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines"
Bertrand Russell
"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds "
Miguel de Cervantes
"A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones who need the advice"
Bill Cosby
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