Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and…
— Bikram Choudhury
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Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence,…
— David W. Orr
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Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to…
— Dalai Lama
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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
— Adolf Hitler
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Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
— Benjamin Franklin
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I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women…
— Russell M. Nelson
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We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin…
— Bill Frist
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If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence.…
— Thomas Merton
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My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through…
— Ernest Holmes
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Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be…
— Frederick Lenz
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The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define…
— Marcus Buckingham
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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
— Bertrand Russell
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Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
— Frank Herbert
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Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not know, Intelligence takes chances…
— Frank Herbert
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Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.
— William H. Hastie
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