"Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found."
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"It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good."
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"It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves."
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"Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars."
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"His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere."
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"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."
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"Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this."
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"We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts."
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"Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits."
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"In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world."
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"Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity."
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"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."
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"The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations."
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"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem."
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"Tis good-will makes intelligence."
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"Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other."
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"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
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"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
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". . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom."
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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
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