Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence,…
— Martin Rees
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to…
— Robert Winston
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War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.
— Rick DellaRatta
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,…
— Plutarch
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
— Helen Keller
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Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
— Joseph Chenier
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Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
— W. Timothy Garvey
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.
— Paul Hawken
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
— Carl Sagan
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they…
— William Shakespeare
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To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
— Howard Gardner
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
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State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
— Mark Twain
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Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
— John Dewey
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
— Pindar
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