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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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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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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."


"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."


"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."


"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."


"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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