Random Quotes
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.Bertrand Russell
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.Remy de Gourmont
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities"
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.G.H. Hardy
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.Benoit Mandelbrot