Quote of F. Scott Fitzgerald - The test of a first-rate intelligence...
Biography - F. Scott Fitzgerald:
American novelist and short story writer.
Born: 1896 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1896 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
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.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about idea:
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.
For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Quotes for: ability
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald also said...
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