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Children are remarkable
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
Cynical realismCynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley
Genius
Helpless without itThe bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides
Human geniusIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Infinite intelligenceI know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison
Intelligent hellAn intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
It has its limitsThe difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
It is the wifeIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
Madness and intelligenceScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Magical thingsThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Mediocre people
More interestingAn intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
No methodThere is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
Respond intelligentlyRespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment
Lao Tzu
Rusts for want of use
Servitude
Smart enoughI'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
William Hazlitt
So cleverI am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
The stupid and the intelligentThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Three kinds of intelligenceThere are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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