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    Terry Pratchett
    “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: crowds, intelligence, mob-rule, mobs, people
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4184 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71605 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
    3083 likes

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    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
    2617 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Nelson Mandela
    “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship
    2065 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
    2085 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
    2011 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: atheism, intelligence
    1633 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: intelligence, kindlehighlight, wisdom
    1491 likes

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    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
    1158 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
    1083 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
    941 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    925 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
    812 likes

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    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
    tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will
    826 likes



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