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“There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.”
-BERTOLT BRECHT
“Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
“Intelligence forbids tears.”
-DORIS LESSING
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
-Albert Einstein
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Let man’s soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.”
-john donne
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”
-Roy H. Williams
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking its stupid”
– Einstein
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
-Henry Ford
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt
“For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.”
– unknown
“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.”
-Konrad Adenauer
“Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.”
-H.B. BARLOW
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them.”
– Albert Einstein
“It was only when Bormann’s disappearance became a matter for serious conjecture, and intelligence agents began to go into the ugly details, that an incredible episode in Hitler’s life came to light. This explained exactly how Martin Bormann was able to gather into his
hands all the strings required to make Hitler dance to his tune.”
-Martin bormann
“Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.”
-STEPHEN KING
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
“You don’t need to know all the answers. No one is smart enough to ask you all the questions.”
– Unknown
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”
-w. e. b. dubois
“Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.”
-ERICH FROMM
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
-Ronald Reagan
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.”
– Eric Lau
“No human is more intelligent than the other…just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.”
-Siddharth katragadda
“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”
-MAXIM GORKY
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
-Henry Ford
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison
“I would much rather have people think I’m stupid, and shock them, than have people think I’m smart, and disappoint them.”
– Mike Bronson
“Nobody beat Ray twice until he was 40 years old. His intelligence, his versatility, and his will to win were the reasons he won all those rematches. He created a new place for the imagination of a fighter.”
-Sugar ray robinson
“On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
-DOUGLAS ADAMS
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
-Blaise Pascal
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought together?” This is a practical question. We must get down to it. “I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus
“There are too many stupid people in the world. I’m not saying we should kill them all or anything. Just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself.”
– Unknown
“Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.”
-Alberto Manguel
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
-FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
“I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.”
-Maya Angelou
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Nobody beat Ray twice until he was 40 years old. His intelligence, his versatility, and his will to win were the reasons he won all those rematches. He created a new place for the imagination of a fighter.”
-Sugar ray robinson
“The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.”
-ROBERT REED
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
-A. A. Milne
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“In a world where there is enlightenment, intelligence, kindness, awareness of others’ needs and others’ well-being, there is no terrorism. And in a world of viciousness and narrow-mindedness and only one way, there will be terrorism. Our challenge, in our country, is to find a way to disagree amongst ourselves without being so awful about it.”
-james woods
“Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.”
-TOBSHA LEARNER
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
-Charles Bukowski
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag
“It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.”
-joseph
“A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.”
-JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
“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
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
-james joseph sylvester
“Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.”
-JACK LONDON
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
-Oscar Wilde
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
-Aldous huxley
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
-Ray Bradbury
“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
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