Identity Quote by Jo Nesbø

“The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."---Irrational Exuberance”

— Robert J. Shiller

“When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.”

— Jack L. Chalker

“Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.”

— Patrick M. Garry

“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the…

— Michael Crichton

“Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self.”

— Gian Kumar

“Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.”

— Tanya Huff

“When people's faith in the collective intelligence increases, falls to the same extent their own individual sense of responsibility.”

— M.Z.Riffi

“spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks, and what…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The mind is capable of amazing feats of self-deception in order to keep its fragile ego intact. My”

— Nat Kozinn

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana