Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last…
— Anton Chekhov
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He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like…
— Anne Rice
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
— Dan Chaon
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That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child,…
— Orson Scott Card
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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the…
— Suzanne Collins
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There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
— Rajneesh
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There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
— Ed Greenwood
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
— Oscar Wilde
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The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that…
— R.K. Narayan
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
— Susan Sontag
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No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a…
— Deepak Chopra
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Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
— Oscar Wilde
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