Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1889 authors
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
— Albert Einstein
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
— Isaac Asimov
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
— Terry Goodkind
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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in…
— Oscar Wilde
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Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to…
— Henry Miller
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount…
— Sándor Márai
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the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The one help we all need is given to us freely though the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Having faith in Jesus Christ and In His…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice…
— Aristotle
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You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I…
— Dave Barry
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
— Larry Niven
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Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if…
— Immanuel Kant
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They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They…
— Michael Crichton
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
— Unknown Author
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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American…
— Harry S. Truman
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