Intelligence Quotes

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I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. — Dolly Parton
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. — Blaise Pascal
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation… — Louis Pasteur
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. — George S. Patton
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments. — Henry Paulson
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. — Pablo Picasso
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it… — Charles Pierce
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. — Harold Pinter
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence… — Harold Pinter
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. — John Podhoretz
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. — Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. — Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. — Alexander Pope
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman

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