Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Common sense is not so common.
— Voltaire
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
— Voltaire
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
— Lyall Watson
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
— Bill Watterson
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
— John Wayne
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
— Simone Weil
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
— Simone Weil
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
— Simone Weil
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
— Rebecca West
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
— James Whistler
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
— Theodore White
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
— Oscar Wilde
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too…
— Oscar Wilde
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