"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Intelligence
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
More From F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
- "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
- "I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
More In Intelligence
- "I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."― Mikhail Bakunin
- "The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves."― David Letterman
- "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."― William Ellery Channing