Quote by Abigail Adams
Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected

Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. – Abigail Adams

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. – Titus Livius

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. – Caleb Cushing

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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. – Jacques Maritain

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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. – William Blake

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