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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell
them so.
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-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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*Beauty without intelligence
is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that
fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her
beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates
beyond the place where the eyes can see.
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-Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Concerning Women's Intelligence and Beauty, 1876
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True genius resides in the capacity for
evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Winston Churchill
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One of the few indictments of civilization is
that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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-William Feather
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The next best thing to knowing something
is knowing where to find it.
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-Samuel Johnson
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Nature abhors a moron.
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-H.L. Mencken
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*A cultivated mind---I do not
mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge
have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to
exercise its faculties---finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that
surrounds it; in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the
imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind past and
present, and their prospects in the future.
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-John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Chapter II, "What Utilitarianism Is"
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The main thing needed to make men happy is
intelligence.
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-Bertrand Russell
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*Knowing a great deal is not
the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also
judgement, the manner in which information is collected and used.
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-Carl Sagan
Cosmos, 1980
Chapter X, "The Persistence of Memory"
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