Intelligence Quotes

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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases. — Dan Brown
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Education is no substitute for intelligence. — Frank Herbert
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I… — Sherman Alexie
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through. — Terry Pratchett
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent… — Eva Ibbotson
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know… — Jeanette Winterson
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a… — Guy de Maupassant
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our… — Baron de Montesquieu
...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That… — Dale Carnegie
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceâ€”or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of… — Arthur C. Clarke
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll
At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At… — Kelley Armstrong
Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence… — Douglas Hofstadter

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