"Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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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"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."

Hope, Anthony 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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"Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life."

Huxley, Aldous on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Bronte, Charlotte on feelings
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"Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others."

Covey, Stephen R. on feelings
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"There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him."

Gabirol, Ibn on fools and foolishness
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does."

Angelis, Barbara De on women
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"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

Goldsmith, Oliver on fools and foolishness   

"Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history."

Hertzler on fools and foolishness   

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fools and foolishness
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"You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read."

Lewis, C. S. on fools and foolishness
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

Baker, Nicholson on proverbs   

"Patch grief with proverbs."

Shakespeare, William on grief
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Cervantes, Miguel De on proverbs
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"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."

Russell, John on proverbs   

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on fools and foolishness
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness   

"Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness   

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."

Chase, Ilka on fools and foolishness   

"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."

Disraeli, Isaac on fools and foolishness   

"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

Ellis, Havelock on fools and foolishness
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"Fools are without number."

Erasmus, Desiderius on fools and foolishness   

"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."

Fielding, Henry on fools and foolishness   

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?"

Freehill, Maurice on fools and foolishness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

Proverb, Jewish on fools and foolishness
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one."

Bennett, James Gordon on mistakes
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