Intelligence Quotes

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...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it… — Kathy Acker
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then… — Haruki Murakami
Ignorance never settles a question. — Benjamin Disraeli
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as… — Kurt Vonnegut
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden... — Marcus Garvey
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with… — C.S. Lewis
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. — Maya Angelou
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. — Victor Hugo
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.… — Albert Einstein
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
To see what is in front of oneâ€™s nose needs a constant struggle. — George Orwell
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. — Jane Austen
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token — Elbert Hubbard

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