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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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Michael Polanyi
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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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intelligence

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Intelligence

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy H. Williams

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Intelligence

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. – Sigmund Freud

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Intelligence

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