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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
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: failure, intelligence, mistakes, self-recognition
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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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
    3092 likes

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  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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  • #7
    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
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  • #8
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
    1163 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
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    Wei Hui
    “Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
    ― Wei Hui
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  • #11
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

    [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence
    432 likes

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  • #12
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: intelligence
    488 likes

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  • #13
    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: human-nature, intelligence, science
    461 likes

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  • #14
    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
    430 likes

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    Hippolyte Taine
    “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
    ― Hippolyte Taine
    tags: animals, cats, intelligence, philosophers, smart, wisdom
    345 likes

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  • #16
    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: education, foolishness, fools, ignorance, intelligence
    240 likes

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  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: education, intelligence, wisdom
    675 likes

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  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: edgar-allan-poe, intelligence, madness
    312 likes

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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
    ― Naguib Mahfouz
    tags: genius, intelligence, madness, mahfouz, naguib
    205 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: brain, cognition, compassion, control, creative, creative-genius, creativity, disorder, driving, genius, illness, intelligence, knowledge, mental, mental-illness, pain, psychopath, schizophrenia, self-control, sorrow, sympathy, understanding
    238 likes

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  • #21
    Walter Lippmann
    “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
    ― Walter Lippmann
    tags: intelligence, thought
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
    tags: intelligence, mankind, stupidity
    248 likes

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  • #23
    Toba Beta
    “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: intelligence, purpose, stupidity
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  • #24
    Diane Arbus
    “The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
    ― Diane Arbus, Revelations
    tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, life
    117 likes

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  • #25
    Richard Kadrey
    “Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
    Or insanity.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Butcher Bird
    tags: contradictions, insanity, intelligence
    67 likes

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    Hamza Yusuf
    “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
    ― Hamza Yusuf
    tags: ego, egoism, intelligence, weak, wisdom, wise
    189 likes

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  • #27
    Jennifer Niven
    “I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: alone, empty, emptyness, life, sad, tired
    586 likes

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  • #28
    Jennifer Niven
    “I am disappearing maybe I'm already gone.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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