Arthur Conan Doyle on intelligence

Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

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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