One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Peter

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Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

Criss Jami

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In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Criss Jami

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In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Criss Jami

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I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.

Criss Jami

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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Criss Jami

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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Criss Jami

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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Vivienne Westwood

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