"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
― Emile M. Cioran
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Intelligence
― Emile M. Cioran
More From Emile M. Cioran
- "I have no nationality – the best possible status for an intellectual."
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- "Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
More In Intelligence
- "Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."― Charles Evans Hughes
- "I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."― Aldrich Ames
- "I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that."― Steven Moffat