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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. – John Ciardi

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. – John Ciardi

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – G. K. Chesterton

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. – George Bernard Shaw

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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