Thomas Hobbes on intelligence

The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power…

Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.

For such Truth as opposeth no man’s profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 51 “The Goal of Human Existence” (1943)

• God
• Thinking

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11

• Happiness

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969

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