An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

About Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist.

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

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More quotations tagged with “intelligence”

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

—Laurence J. Peter

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

—Henrik Tikkanen

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

—Harriet Martineau

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

—George Bernard Shaw

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

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