“ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me. ”
- Eva Braun- Copy
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“ On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.". ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ”
- Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ But how shall I get ideas? "Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind — Act! ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ”
- William Winwood Reade- Copy
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“ I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ”
- Martin Mull- Copy
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“ Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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“ Thoughts... have tarried in my mind and peopled its inner chambers,The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy. ”
- Martin Farquhar Tupper- Copy
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“ Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ One said of suicide, "As long as one has brains one should not blow them out." And another answered, "But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.". ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way… an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
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“ When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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“ Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ". ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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