Quote by George Santayana
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. - George S

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell

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Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. – Louis Pasteur

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. – Thomas A. Edison

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. – Wayne Dyer

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. – Mitch Albom

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