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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

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Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive. ↗

— Kimberly Stedronsky

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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals by fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. Yet that is what I see, or yearn to see. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged but in the creature judging, and when we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind ↗

— Barry Hughart

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Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel. ↗

— Stephen King

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It's really hard to be roomates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are the really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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Intelligence doesn't always equate to common sense. Or, for that matter, the ability to fully choose one's path in life. ↗

— Ais

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Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless. ↗

— Antero Alli

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I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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