Intelligence Quotes
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I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days.
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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
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Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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My only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
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I worry sometimes that our world actually values a lack of intelligence. Like we are considered normal if we spend our time thinking about what one of the Kardashians wears to a party, and we are considered strange if we wonder whether a bee’s parents grieve if said bee dives into the Central Park Reservoir and never makes it back to the hive.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.
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Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
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Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
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It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
