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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. – Bertolt Brecht

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

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. – James Joseph Sylvester

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