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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

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"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

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"One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not have even five 'revolutions' per minute and an intellectual has one to two thousand 'revolutions' per minute. The higher the 'revolutions, the quicker he will understand this 'Science' [Akram Vignan]."

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"Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are."

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"That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'."

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"Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect-better because they alone give promise of final success."

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"The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it."

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"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."

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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."

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"Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses."

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