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#1

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#2

“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

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#3

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#4

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

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#5

“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

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#6

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#7

“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

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#8

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#9

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#10

“No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#11

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: equanimity, opinion

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#12

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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