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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.


Albert Camus


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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.


Douglas Adams


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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it


Fernando Pessoa


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It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.


George R.R. Martin


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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.


C.G. Jung


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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.


Jane Austen


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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.


Virginia Woolf


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I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.


Jane Wagner


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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.


Friedrich Nietzsche


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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.


Daniel Goleman


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