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“He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. “Your love for him has damaged your senses.”“And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence”
“I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...”
“Kindness is the supreme intelligence.”
“Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.”
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which do...”
“Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.”
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
“Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.”
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.”
“I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.”
“Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
