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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Peter Ustinov

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel Proust /Remembrance of Things Past/

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald