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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left. (Valletta Amber)
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. (Valletta Amber)
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey. (Valletta Amber)
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. (Valletta Amber)
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. (Valletta Amber)
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. (Valletta Amber)
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. (Valletta Amber)
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. (Valletta Amber)
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. (Valletta Amber)
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. (Valletta Amber)
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. (Valletta Amber)
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. (Valletta Amber)
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. (Valletta Amber)
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. (Valletta Amber)
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. (Valletta Amber)
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. (Valletta Amber)
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are (Valletta Amber)
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. (Valletta Amber)
It is little that one gains by cleverness. (Valletta Amber)
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. (Valletta Amber)
The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. (Valletta Amber)
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