Intelligence Quotes

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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the… — Robert Anton Wilson
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. — Peter Ustinov
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. — Alistair Cooke
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure… — Whittaker Chambers
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be… — Heraclitus
If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had… — Robert Breault
Individuality is the aim of political liberty — James F. Cooper
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all — Nikita Khrushchev
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. — Adolf Hitler
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!"… — Steven Pressfield
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence.… — Howard Gardner
Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all… — Walter Russell
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply. — Marilyn vos Savant
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. — Laozi
I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long… — Walter Russell
It is wiser to find out than to suppose. — Mark Twain
When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position,… — Napoleon Hill
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel

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