Intelligence

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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

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Intelligence

Author

Samuel Johnson

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

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Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 24 Aug. 1751.

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

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Intelligence Contradiction Ideas

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Crack-Up Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

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Arrogance Intelligence

Author

Margaret Fuller

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Boast

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Fuller, Margaret. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Vol. 1, Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852, pt. 4.

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

The Prince

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Intelligence

Author

Niccolo Machiavelli

Source

The Prince

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

Italian

Time

1532 1530s 16th century

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Original Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

Current Citation

Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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

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Topic

Intelligence Judgment

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

The Goal of Human Existence

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

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

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Topic

Intelligence Ideas

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 29.