Quote by Michael Polanyi
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Faith
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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communication
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I wont insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Intelligence

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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Intelligence

Genius is initiative on fire. – Holbrook Jackson

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Intelligence

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law. – Gloria Naylor

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Intelligence

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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. – Margaret Cho

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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