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He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it! ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#humor #intelligence #smart-women #women #intelligence

Listening and observing with your undivided attention are the most easily accessible and cheapest forms of useful intelligence. ↗

— Melody Boates

#intelligence

Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught. ↗

— Nicholas Nassim Taleb

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Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#argument #arrogance #intelligence #intelligence

What are wits for unless a man uses them? ↗

— Ellis Peters

#thinking #wits #intelligence

Più intelligenza avrai, più soffrirai. ↗

— Schopenhauer Arthur

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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ↗

— Helen Keller

#joy #purpose #intelligence

Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ... ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

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Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intelligence #kindness #wisdom #intelligence

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#knowledge #intelligence