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A mind too active is no mind at all.

—Woodrow Wilson

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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

—Theodore Roethke

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

—Robert J. Shiller

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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

—Lisa Alther

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

—Laurence J. Peter

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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

—Henrik Tikkanen

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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

—Harriet Martineau

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

—George Bernard Shaw

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

—G. H. Hardy

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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

—Don Herold

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

—Bertrand Russell

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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

—Albert Einstein

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