Intelligence Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Albert Einstein
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| There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. |
| - Henry B. Adams |
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| I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attituges she can bring to bear on the same topic. |
| - Lisa Alther |
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| Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. |
| - Henri Frédéric Amiel |
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| Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
| - Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. |
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
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| There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| - Don Herold |
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| There is notboy so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| - Don Herold |
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| The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. |
| - Charles F. Kettering |
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| What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| I think the world is run by C students. |
| - Al McGuire |
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| I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. |
| - Dolly Parton |
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| An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. |
| - Mary Pettibone Poole |
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| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. |
| - Jonathan Swift |
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| Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. |
| - Henrik Tikkanen |
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| I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Common sense is not so common. |
| - Voltaire |
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| A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. |
| - Barbara Walters |
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| Sometimes I think te surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. |
| - Bill Watterson |
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| I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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| We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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