Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they…
— George Stephanopoulos
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
— Socrates
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Anyone can drink beer, but it takes intelligence to enjoy beer.
— Stephen Beaumont
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they…
— Plato
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
— Plato
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Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet…
— Xunzi
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Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no…
— Richardson Wright
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
— Sophocles
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
— Xenophanes
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Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.
— Jacques Deval
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Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence,…
— Rob Brezsny
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On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with…
— Robert S. Beecroft
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I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually…
— King O'Malley
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Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night…
— Glenda Green
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
— Socrates
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Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war…
— Richard Armitage
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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