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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion."
Bill Gates
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein
"There 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 is excellent, the second good, and the third useless."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
Author Unknown
"Beauty is a sign of intelligence."
Andy Warhol
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions."
Scott Adams
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
Alexandre Dumas
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
Bertrand Russell
"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."
C.S. Lewis
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill
"Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it."
Mark Twain
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Bertrand Russell
"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."
Brian Tracy
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic."
David Gemmell
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
Laurence Peter
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Saul Bellow
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