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Intelligence Quotes :
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” ~Martin Luther King
- “When in doubt, look intelligent.” ~Garrison Keillor
- “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” ~Edgar Allan Poe
- “A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” ~Charles Kettering
- “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” ~Socrates
- “It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.” ~Bryant H. Mcgill
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ~Stephen Hawking
- “Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” ~Roger Ebert
- “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” ~Bill Watterson
- “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.” ~Victor Hugo
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Quotes About Intelligence :
- “The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.” ~Augustus Hare
- “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ~Albert Einstein
- “Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.” ~Margaret Anderson
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” ~Michael Jordan
- “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” ~George Orwell
- “It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.” ~G. H. Hardy
- “The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.” ~Ed Parker
- “Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” ~Victor Hugo
- “Beauty is a sign of intelligence.” ~Andy Warhol
- “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.” ~Leo Tolstoy
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Quote On Intelligence :
- “My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” ~Helen Gurley Brown
- “For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.” ~Aldous Huxley
- “Intelligence is not a science.” ~Frank Carlucci
- “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” `Susan Sontag
- “Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.” ~Janis Joplin
- “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ~Emma Goldman
- “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ~Albert Einstein
- “Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.” ~Alexander Pope
- “There is no method but to be very intelligent.” ~T. S. Eliot
- “Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~Winston Churchill
Emotional Intelligence Quotes :
- “Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.” ~Theodor Adorno
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” ~Ernst F. Schumacher
- “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.” ~Albert Camus
- “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” ~Victor Hugo
- “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.” ~Toba Beta
- “A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.” ~G K Chesterton
- “There are only two races on this planet the intelligent and the stupid.” ~John Fowles
- “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
Intelligent People Quotes :
- “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” ~Oscar Wilde
- “When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.” ~Thomas W. Higginson
- “Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” ~Marcel Proust
- “An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” ~Susan Sontag
- “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” ~Thomas Szasz
- “There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” ~Don Herold
- “A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.” ~Catherine Deneuve
- “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” ~Martin Luther King
Positive Intelligence Quotes :
- “There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.” ~Josh Billings
- “Belief is the death of intelligence.” ~Robert Anton Wilson
- “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.” ~Arnold J. Toynbee
- “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.” ~Terry Pratchett
- “What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” ~Sigmund Freud
- “Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.” ~Henri Frederic Amiel
- “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” ~James Madison
- “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” ~Ernest Hemingway
- “The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.” ~Ernest Newman
- “Man is the most intelligent of the animals and the most silly.” ~Diogenes
Intelligent Quotes In English :
- “All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” ~Ronald Reagan
- “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~Ernest Hemingway
- “God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” ~Francis Bacon
- “An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.” ~Bryant H. Mcgill
- “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~Salvador Dali
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