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"There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them."
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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."
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
"No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in."
"Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words."
"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
"Developing your emotional intelligence will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others."
"To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win."
"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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"The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice."
"Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things."
"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all."
"It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven."
"But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part."
"Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth."
"But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship."
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."
"Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus."
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