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Albert Einstein1 quote
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 · 1943F. Scott Fitzgerald1 quote
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936Margaret Fuller1 quote
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. — Margaret Fuller · 1850Niccolo Machiavelli1 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 · 1532Nicolas Chamfort1 quote
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 · 1796Samuel Johnson1 quote
Such is the delight of mental superiority , that none on, whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss. — Samuel Johnson · 1751