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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #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

  • #8
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    Marie Curie

  • #9
    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

  • #10
    Wei Hui
    “Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
    Wei Hui

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #14
    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #15
    Hippolyte Taine
    “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
    Hippolyte Taine

  • #16
    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    Moliere

  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #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

  • #19
    Naguib Mahfouz
    “Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
    Naguib Mahfouz

  • #20
    Criss Jami
    “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #21
    Walter Lippmann
    “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
    Walter Lippmann

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Toba Beta
    “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
    Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

  • #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

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

  • #26
    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

  • #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

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



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