"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat."
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
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"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
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"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
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"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals."
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"Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair."
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"There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig."
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"Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing."
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
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"Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life."
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"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools."
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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
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"Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces."
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"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
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"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
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"If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'"
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"The color of truth is gray."
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"A good mind possesses a kingdom."
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"It is wiser to find out than to suppose."
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