Intelligence Quotes

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Brains aren't everything, but they're important. — William Feather
The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price. — Malcolm Forbes
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. — Joseph Joubert
The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living. — Charles Kettering
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual… — Horace Mann
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. — H. L. Mencken
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. — Moliere
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens… — James Cash Penney
It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good. — Harold Prince
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. — Charles Simmons
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the… — Robert Southey
Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found. — Malvina Reynolds
A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management. — Malcolm Knowles
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the… — Jean Houston
Democracy is self-creating coherence. — Mary Parker Follett
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W. W. Sawyer
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying… — Alan Kay

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