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"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them." Chinua Achebe 4.6897 average rating  
"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason." Douglas Noel Adams 4.3137 average rating  
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." Henry Brooks Adams 3.7500 average rating  
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own." Henry Brooks Adams 3.4706 average rating  
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." Henry Brooks Adams 4.1757 average rating  
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact." James Truslow Adams 4.3824 average rating  
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Quincy Adams 4.8333 average rating  
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." Scott Adams 4.4286 average rating  
"I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual." John Fellows Akers 4.3043 average rating  
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" Hoshang N. Akhtar 4.6129 average rating  
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." Edward Albee 4.3810 average rating  
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." Woody Allen 3.6364 average rating  
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." Maya Angelou 4.7778 average rating  
"For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." Maya Angelou 4.7222 average rating  
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Moshe Arens 4.6667 average rating  
"What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error." Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron 3.6667 average rating  
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." Saint Augustine 4.3571 average rating  
"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat." Sri da Avabhas 4.2500 average rating  
"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." Alfred Jules Ayer 3.0000 average rating  
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism." Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe 3.8571 average rating  
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