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“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

People Men Enough Knowledge Intelligent Majority Intelligence Definitions Intelligent Man

Author:G. H. Hardy

“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”

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Author:Li Ka-shing

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

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Author:Louis Pasteur

“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”

Knows Men Asks Answers Education Knowledge Wise Intelligent Intelligence Ignorant Ashamed Do You Know Questioning Being Afraid Intelligent Man Very Wise Questions Asked

Author:John Abbott

“The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.”

People Firsts Persons Knowledge Duty Intelligent Prepared Intelligence Civilized Civility Cultivation Cultivating Preparedness Rewriting Encyclopedia

Book:Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

Source: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.”

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Author:Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.”

Ifs Long Made States Earth Science Wonder Knowledge Conditions Experience Intelligent Organisms Wire Pulse Transmit Magnetic Living Organisms

Book:Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

Source: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”

Knows Stills Science Wonder Knowledge Grew Intelligent Vanquish

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.”

World States Can Do Knowledge Awareness Intelligent Seeking Perceive Fleeting Don Juan Juan Dilettantes

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”

“When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.”

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Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections