But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Daniel Keyes
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I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. Those of you who are too educated or intelligent to allow yourself to make mistakes. They don't teach you how stupid we can be, and they don't teach you how we can fool ourselves and make the worst kind of mistakes. And the worst of all is: they don't teach you to love and believe in people, even though love and belief in people are the only things that really matter in life.

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