“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man.”
Reported in, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. (1917).
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