Intelligence Quotes - Page 9

• I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humorous, Trying

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• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

  Socrates

  Funny, Spiritual, Intelligent

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.83

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• I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

  Molly Ivins

  Truth, Believe, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Courage, Truth, Struggle

  Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Intellectual, Arguing

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

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• A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Life, Spiritual, Mistake

  Ulysses (1922)

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

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• To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Philosophy, Becoming, Meaning Of Life

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Atheist, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

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  You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Witty, Women

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Wisdom, Stupid People

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612

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• If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

  Stanley Marion Garn

  Wisdom, Civilization, Common Sense

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• It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Assessment, Intellectual, Able

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• Great minds think for themselves.

  Immanuel Kant

  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.

  Fred Hoyle

  Life, Theory Of Evolution, Numbers

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• Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Maturity, People, Language

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 18, 2013

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• The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

  Alexander Calder

  Success, Cutting, Artist

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  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

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Intelligent, Appreciate, Three

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• The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

  Aldous Huxley

  Journey, Long, Intellectual

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• For instance, 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

  Success, New York, War

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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