Quote by John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

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The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. – Augustus Hare

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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold

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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. – Vernor Vinge

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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. – Phaedrus

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