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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
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“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Complete Tales and Poems
― Complete Tales and Poems
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
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“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
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“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― The Burning Secret and other stories
― The Burning Secret and other stories
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