Intelligence Quotes

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Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful… — Michael Crichton
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence — Christopher Hitchens
If we surrendered to earthâ€™s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2… — Susan Sontag
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the… — Anthony Kiedis
No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind. — Julia Quinn
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal… — Miyamoto Musashi
He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains — Joseph Heller
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity. — Ted Chiang
To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you.… — U.G. Krishnamurti
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings — Adrienne Rich
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! — Immanuel Kant
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to… — Tyler Perry
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison… — Anthony de Mello
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence — Frida Kahlo

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