Intelligence Quotes

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up… — Sheryl WuDunn
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two… — Orson Scott Card
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! — Bryant H. McGill
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of… — Kenny Smith
Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know… — Walter Russell
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures… — Huston Smith
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the… — Ayn Rand
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge,… — Marilyn Johnson
As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through… — Jeremy Hammond
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized… — Pope Gregory VII
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be… — Suzy Kassem
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask… — Dale Carnegie
Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries. — Colin Powell
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where… — Nancy Pelosi
It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active… — Tony Blair
The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those… — Tony Blair
I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong. — Tony Blair

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