"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."

Short, Solomon on intelligence and intellectuals
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"The secret to humor is surprise."

Aristotle on humor
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."

Aristotle on leisure
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on character
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."

Sontag, Susan on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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."

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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on intelligence and intellectuals
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"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on intelligence and intellectuals   

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on freedom
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on tact and tactfulness
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Lincoln, Abraham on vice
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"Everybody likes a compliment."

Lincoln, Abraham on compliments
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"He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan."

Lincoln, Abraham on crime and criminals
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on reality
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

Lincoln, Abraham on excellence
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

Lincoln, Abraham on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on government
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