"The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."

Mcwilliams, Peter on mistakes
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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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"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."

Bronowski, Jacob on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning."

Proverb, Spanish on fools and foolishness   

"Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship
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"What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four."

Proverb, Russian on god
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"When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart."

Proverb, Russian on judgment and judges
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"With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back."

Proverb, Russian on lies and lying
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"Pray to God but continue to row to the shore."

Proverb, Russian on prayer
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"Shame is worse than death."

Proverb, Russian on shame
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"The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself."

Al-Nuri on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic on intelligence and intellectuals   

"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."

Bogan, Louise on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."

Colby, Frank Moore on intelligence and intellectuals