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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
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"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
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"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"
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"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
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"I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb."
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"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
Intelligence
"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
God
"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
Miracles
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
Science
"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
Men
"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
God
"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
God
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
Fear
"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
Trust
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