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“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

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

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“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

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
― James Madison

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
― Herophilus

“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”
― Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

“There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
― Will Durant

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
― Will Durant

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
― Will Durant

“History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.”
― Will Durant

“you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.”
― Will Durant, Caesar and Christ

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.”
― Will & Ariel durant

“History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice.”
― Will Durant, Story of Civilization

“[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.”
― Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

“When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“Peace is war by other means.”
― Will Durant