Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting…
— Jayne Loader
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"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that…
— Frank Drake
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the…
— Damon Albarn
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Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
— Thomas A. Edison
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If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted…
— Samuel Morse
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In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and…
— Ry Cooder
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When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It…
— Camille Paglia
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing…
— Camille Paglia
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Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
— Helen Vendler
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart.…
— Tony Buzan
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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
— Howard Gardner
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that…
— Rose Macaulay
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Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the…
— Dianne Feinstein
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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each…
— Christian Lous Lange
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Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
— Peggy Noonan
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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings,…
— Stanley Crawford
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