Intelligence Quotes

3172 quotes by 1911 authors

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't… — Carl Sagan
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not… — Saadi
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme… — Voltaire
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. — Douglas Adams
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didnâ€™tâ€¦Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Adron always had a thing for expensive hoâ€™s with the intelligence of backwash. You look like you actually have both a brain and a soul.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years. — Warren Ellis
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can… — Richard Bach
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be… — Muriel Barbery
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her… — Milan Kundera
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant
Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured… — James Frey
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts.… — Marvin J. Ashton
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be… — Albert Einstein
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is… — Voltaire
The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves.… — Thomas Friedman
The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god.… — China Mieville

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