“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
As quoted in Diccionario privado de Jorge Luis Borges (1979) edited by Blas Matamoro

Original

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

Source: Citado en Compromiso con la excelencia. Traducido por Liliana Lutkin. Ediciones Granica S.A., 2000. ISBN 9788475778389, p. 103.

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