Intelligence Quotes - Page 25

• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Inspiration, Beer

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

  Diogenes

  Silly, Men, Animal

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.

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• As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1801). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.”, p.317

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  Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Birthday, Character

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Change, Sweet

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Success, Men

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Art, Nature, Ability

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Drinking, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Laughter, Character

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Liquor Stores

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

  James Surowiecki

  Independent, Perspective, People

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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• I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Smart, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blow, Fool, Strikes

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Honesty

  Quoted in Peter Michelmore' s Einstein (p. 20)

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• The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

  Michael J Cohen

  Intelligent, Community, Natural

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