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“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― 3001: The Final Odyssey
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― 3001: The Final Odyssey
“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
― A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
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“A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”
― Ptolemy's Gate
― Ptolemy's Gate
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
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“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
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“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
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about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
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“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
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“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
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“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
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“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
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“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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