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Intelligent Quotes:
(I'm Sorry there is so many Orson Scott Card/Enders Game Series Quotes, But Im obbsessed)

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." -John Locke

"Sell a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and you've ruined a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx (Mocking Capitalists)

"Children should educate their parents." - Karl Marx

Orson Scott Card on whether or not he believes there is other Intelligent Life in the Universe (Aliens) "We're still struggling to find a significant amount of intelligence here, so no."

"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon." -Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)

"(Regarding humans.) They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo-knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts." "While collectively..." "Collectively, they're a collection of dolts." - Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

"Everyone you say who says that they have no religious beliefs is just so certain about their belief that they accept it as truth. If you just start asking probing questions, and they start getting mad, then you've found their religion."
"Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent." -Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)

""The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them." -Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle

"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals revolt that they may be superior." - Aristotle

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." - Plato

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." - Plato

"To find yourself, think for yourself" - Socrates

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live." - Socrates

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." - Socrates

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." -Socrates

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." - Socrates

(I Will From Time to Time add more quotes, Please PM me any you think belong here and be sure to check them often)