"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
― Sigmund Freud
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Intelligence
More From Sigmund Freud
- "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
- "Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
- "If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
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- "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