Intelligence Quotes

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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In… — Alec Baldwin
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. — Honore de Balzac
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to… — Douglas Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. — Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my… — Roseanne Barr
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to… — Jacques Barzun
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? — Scott Adams
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't… — Ezra Taft Benson
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. — Henri Bergson
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. — Claude Bernard
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may… — Annie Besant

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