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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
Jeff Hawkins
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.
Richard Feynman
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Vaclav Havel
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
Desiderius Erasmus
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Dylan Thomas
The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.
Luis Albert Machado
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Janis Karpinski
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Percy Wynham Lewis
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Wilson
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
Gillian Anderson
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
