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I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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Proof that one can be both intelligent and accept the intelligence of those who disagree with you? Why, I should think it would undermine the scholarly world in its entirety.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.

If you're going to insist on giving perfectly logical and reasonable answers to stupid questions," she said, "you may put a dent in my delusions of genius.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid

Does anyone not have any problems with taking ideas seriously? I think I'm in this category because ideas like cryonics, the Singularity, <nowiki>[</nowiki>unfriendly artificial intelligence<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and Tegmark's mathematical universe were all immediately obvious to me as ideas to take seriously, and I did so without much conscious effort or deliberation.

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

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if you shall seem to some to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

I said, 'What? Are you serious?'

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.

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