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| 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. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
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| The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. (Robert Frost) |
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| Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. (Will Cuppy) |
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| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Arthur C. Clarke) |
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| It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. (G. H. Hardy) |
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| Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. (Henrik Tikkanen) |
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| If little else, the brain is an educational toy. (Tom Robbins) |
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| There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. (Henry Adams) |
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| Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) |
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| Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. (Michel de Montaigne) |
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| There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. (Don Herold) |
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| [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. (Alexander Smith) |
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| For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. (Rachel Carson) |
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| I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. (Lisa Alther) |
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| Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. (Harriet Martineau) |
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| The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. (Tryon Edwards) |
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| He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. (Michel de Montaigne) |
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| Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) |
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| One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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| People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. (Stephen Hawking) |
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| An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. (Laurence J. Peter) |
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| The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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