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"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"A truly intelligent person does not cling to any ideology."
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"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."


"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."


"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."


"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation."


"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."


"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
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