Intelligence Quotes - Page 4

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Family, Senior

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

  Stephen Hawking

  Intelligent, Long, Survival

  "Life in the Universe" by Stephen Hawking, www.hawking.org.uk. 1996.

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Nice, Intelligent, People

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• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

  Ernest Newman

  Voice, Intellect, Higher

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• Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

  Stephen King

  Baby, Children, Stupid

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• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Power, Intelligent, Insightful

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• Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Social Behavior, World, Antisocial

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

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

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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  Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Song, Littles

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• Cleverness is not wisdom.

  Euripides

  Wisdom, Life And Love, Silly

  Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Smart, Stupid

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• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Depth

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

  Ernest Bevin

  Ignorance, People, Looks

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