“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
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“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius”
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man”
“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides”
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well”
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense”
“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning”
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think”
“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth”
“Jesting is often only indigence of intellect”
“There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence”
“It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished”
““Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing”
“Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers”
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”