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Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields. ↗

— James Morcan

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We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose. ↗

— Rafael Sabatini

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If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

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I’m so smart that I make everyone around me smarter. I do this by being dumber than everybody.
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— Jarod Kintz

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With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it. ↗

— Michael R. LeGault

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