QUOTE A DAY - June 22, 2017

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*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
--Arthur C. Clarke


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

See at the bottom for the answer



*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
--Woodrow Wilson

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
--Laurence J. Peter

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
--G. H. Hardy


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

ANSWER: Bertrand Russell

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