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View Quote There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making a living somewhere. Teaching, the poor bas****, or doing research. Precious few of them are actually in positions of power.
View Quote Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game p. 128
View Quote Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.
View Quote Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, D. Parmée, trans. (London: 2003) #68
View Quote There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
View Quote Gilbert K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
View Quote It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
View Quote Arthur C. Clarke, clarkefoundation.org
View Quote Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.
View Quote President Grover Cleveland at the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).
View Quote Perhaps, in spite of her brilliance, she’s too young to realize the hostility of the world toward intelligence.
View Quote Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 73
View Quote She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.
View Quote Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 75
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