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There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making a living somewhere. Teaching, the poor bas****, or doing research. Precious few of them are actually in positions of power.
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Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game p. 128
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.
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Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, D. Parmée, trans. (London: 2003) #68
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke, clarkefoundation.org
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Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.
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President Grover Cleveland at the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).
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Perhaps, in spite of her brilliance, she’s too young to realize the hostility of the world toward intelligence.
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Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 73
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She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.
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Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 75