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• “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential”-- Winston Churchill
• “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.”-- Albert Einstein
• “It is wiser to find out than to suppose”-- Marck Twain
• “Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”-- Bertolt Brecht
• “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”-- Socrates
• “I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”-- Abigail Adams
• “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”-- Rene Descartes
• “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”-- Robert Frost
• “Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”-- David Dunham
• “... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”-- Dr. Carl Sagan
• “Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”-- Dr. Carl Sagan
• “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”-- Galileo Galilei
• “For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.”-- Lao Tzu
• “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”-- Pablo Picasso
• “The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations”-- Andre Gide
• “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”-- Tao Te Ching
• “Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.”-- Henrik Tikkanen
• “The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”-- Oscar Wilde
• “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”-- Niccolo Machiavelli
• “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”-- Marya Mannes
• “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory”-- Leonardo da Vinci