Intelligence Quotes
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
