Quotes · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir2 quotes

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. — Margaret Fuller · 1850 We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve; and it is not fastidious in its choice of a leader. — Albert Einstein · 1943

Philosophical literature2 quotes

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532 A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. — Nicolas Chamfort · 1796

Political literature1 quote

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532