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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Sexy, Witty, Laughter

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• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  David W. Orr

  Beauty, Teacher, Real

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• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

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• Never does any pride enter the heart of a man ex­cept that his in­tel­li­gence de­creases by the same amount.

  Muhammad al-Baqir

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

  Lewis Terman

  Psychology, Individuality, Important

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Black And White, Expectations, Would Be

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

  Raymond A. Spruance

  Business, Men, Decision

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  Men, Intellectual, Noble

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• When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Cooking, Friendly

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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• We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

  Euripides

  Wisdom, Hurt, Pay

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Philosophy, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

  Truman Capote

  Funny, Years, California

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

  Chris French

  Eyewitnesses, Testimony, Unreliable

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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

  Aristotle

  Educational, Teaching, Justice

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• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Literature, Used

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• He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

  Robert Moses

  Long, Intellectual, Prodigies

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• Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

  Mae West

  Love, Women, Smart

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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