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 Johnson1751★ 5.3
Autobiography and memoirI now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.Margaret Fuller1850★ 3.6
Essay · MagazineThe 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 Fitzgerald1936★ 3.6
Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureThere 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 MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 3.0
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