"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
― George Orwell
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Intelligence
― George Orwell
More From George Orwell
- "In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
- "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."
More In Intelligence
- "Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn’t find them."― Richard Ben-Veniste
- "The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."― Ernest Newman
- "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."― William Hazlitt