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"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."
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"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."
"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
"You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
"The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning."
"Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault."
"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
"There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love."
"You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them."
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