"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
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"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture."
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"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."
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"If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."
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"I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination."
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"It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain."
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"Education is understanding relationships."
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"Everything great and intelligent is in the minority"
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"There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness."
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"We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities."
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"There is no method but to be very intelligent."
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"Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium"
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"Brains are an asset, if you hide them."
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"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
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"The mind does not take its complexion from the skin."
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