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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
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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."

"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

"No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged."

"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"

"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."

"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."
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