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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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