Intelligence Quotes

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every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which… — Ayn Rand
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor… — Philip Pullman
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though… — Nicholas Sparks
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. — Garrison Keillor
...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence.… — John Flanagan
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so… — John Taylor
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest… — Dean Koontz
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever,… — Dalai Lama
Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any… — Rajneesh
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step… — Salvador Dali
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns
Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably… — Nikki Sixx

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