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

  Lewis Terman

  Psychology, Individuality, Important

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

  Aristotle

  Educational, Teaching, Justice

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• The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

  Wallace Stevens

  Success, Poetry

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.184, Knopf

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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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• It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Intelligent, Statistics, Mark

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• There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Brain, Wigs

  "Beyond the rhinestones" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Men, Intellectual

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• It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Men, Wit, Loses

  Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press

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• The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

  Joe Whitney

  Understanding, Ease

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• Everything intelligent is so boring.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Boring, So Boring

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