Intelligence Quotes

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All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine. — Henry Louis Mencken
When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels,… — Bruce Barton
Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is… — B R Ambedkar
Imagination, industry, and intelligence - the three I s - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt,… — Kitty ONeill Collins
If liberal propaganda didn't work, it would be impossible to comprehend bimbo starlets and uneducated slobs attacking the intelligence of the man who won the… — Ann Coulter
Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under… — Mary Worley Montagu
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and… — Henry Louis Mencken
No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain… — Henry Louis Mencken
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly… — Marcus Bach
To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult… — Samuel Johnson
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. — James Randolph Adams
Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it;… — Baltasar Gracian
This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her… — Christine De Pisan
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in… — Judith Crist
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies. — Bhagavad Gita
State intelligence, like military intelligence and woman friend, is a contradiction in terms. — Niall MacDermot
Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed. — William Orville Douglas
To perceive things in the germ is intelligence. — Lao Tzu
You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. — Jewish Proverb
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock

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