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The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
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The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one's thoughts is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word 'we'. And when the light of the intelligence grows dim, it is not very long before the love of good becomes lost.
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The march of intellect.
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The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.
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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.
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The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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The three greatest mistakes that can be made—lack of intelligence, lack of resolution, or lack of responsibility.
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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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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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There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
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Thomas Carlyle, Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs, London and Westminster Review (1838).
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Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, (translated by Rex Warner, in the Penguin Classics), Book 1, Chapter 9 (p. 80)
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.