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Intellect Quotes
"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect"
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Warren Buffett
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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Sigmund Freud
"The intellect is born young and grows old. That is the tragedy of life."
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Oscar Wilde
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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Leonardo da Vinci
"Language is the dress of thought"
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Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect"
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Samuel Johnson
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding"
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Leonardo da Vinci
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge"
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George R.R. Martin
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom"
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Socrates
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
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Thomas Edison
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
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Jeff Bezos
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
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Jeff Bezos
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
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Samuel Johnson
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
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Plato
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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Plato