Intelligence Quotes

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Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of… — Isaac Asimov
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. — John F. Kennedy
But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. — Ernest Hemingway
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. — Albert Einstein
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution… — Greg Iles
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning… — Maria Montessori
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of… — Umberto Eco
Beauty is a sign of intelligence. — Andy Warhol
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… — Wilkie Collins
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or… — George Washington Carver

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