"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on listening
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on popularity
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"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Lincoln, Abraham on preparation
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"I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORDS side. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."

Russell, Bertrand on intelligence and intellectuals   

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Feynman, Richard P. on nature   

"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."

Bono, Edward De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on intelligence and intellectuals
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"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."

Clarke, Arthur C. on intelligence and intellectuals   

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."

Lombardi, Vince on enthusiasm   

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

Lombardi, Vince on excellence
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"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

Lombardi, Vince on faith
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"You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

Lombardi, Vince on fatigue   

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious."

Lombardi, Vince on fulfillment   

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing -- the result."

Lombardi, Vince on results   

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

Lombardi, Vince on commitment   

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Lombardi, Vince on commitment
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong."

Fasold, David on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered."

Fatmi, Haneef on intelligence and intellectuals   

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"It is far better to be trusted and respected that it is to be liked."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

Garafola, Frank M. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on intelligence and intellectuals
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"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."

Herold, Don on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good."

Hubbard, Elbert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

Peter, Laurence J. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"It's good to be clever, but not to show it."

Proverb, French on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is"

Unknown, Source on integrity
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