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"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mankind
"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Distrust
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Tradition
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" 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.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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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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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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