The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.


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This quote is just one of 19 total F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes in our collection. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for saying 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald