Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you,…
— Danica McKellar
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
— Danica McKellar
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our…
— Peter McWilliams
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
— Ian Mcewan
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
— H. L. Mencken
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is…
— H. L. Mencken
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
— H. L. Mencken
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by…
— Karl A. Menninger
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
— Michelangelo
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial…
— Henry Miller
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I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just…
— Sienna Miller
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the…
— A A Milne
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I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
— Steven Moffat
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from…
— Maria Montessori
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
— Alan Moore
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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