“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.”
— Isaac Asimov, book Pebble in the Sky
Source: Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 15 “The Odds That Vanished”, p. 136
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