"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Intelligence
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
More From F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
- "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
- "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders."
More In Intelligence
- "If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student."― Paul Graham
- "I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."― David Bowie
- "The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."― George Bancroft