“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn’t annihilate human nature.” — Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Tag: intelligence
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“Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.” — Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind
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“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
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“It takes brains to make a smart man, but good luck often makes a famous one.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.” — Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.” — Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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“We have, as yet, no definite proof that too much brain, like too much armor, is not one of those unfortunate evolutionary accidents that lead to the annihilation of its possessors.” — Arthur C. Clarke, “When Earthman and Alien Meet,” Playboy (January 1968)
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“Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs.” — John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
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“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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