Intelligence Quotes

3172 quotes by 1911 authors

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't! — Eric Jerome Dickey
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. — Fernando Pessoa
Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.… — Terry Pratchett
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked… — Victor Hugo
How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or… — Daniel Keyes
No, I donâ€™t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you donâ€™t know yet that a secret,… — Karen Russell
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into… — Stefan Zweig
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based… — Bill Hicks
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the… — Robert James Waller
â€ŽBy 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions… — Michio Kaku
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. — George Orwell
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. — Christopher Moore
I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what,… — Jacquelyn Frank
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because… — Jean Cocteau
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the… — Peter Watts
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman

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