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"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"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."
"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
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