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Cicero (top)
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero


Malcolm S. Forbes (top)
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes


Baltasar Gracian (top)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
- Baltasar Gracian


Paul Graham (top)
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.
- Paul Graham
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it consistenly. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a propylactic measure against stupidity
- Paul Graham


Francois de la Rochefoucauld (top)
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld


George Bernard Shaw (top)
Martydom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw


Henry David Thoreau (top)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau