Intelligence Quotes

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Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb,… — Derek R. Audette
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community… — Charles Rangel
'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging… — Michael J. Fox
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have… — Francois Arago
Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as… — Raymond Cattell
I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to… — J. Robbins
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical… — Albert Einstein
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis good-will makes intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement. — Sydney J. Harris
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it. — Alexis Carrel
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. — Eric Hoffer
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete… — Oscar Wilde
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater… — Marshall McLuhan
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low… — Arthur Koestler

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