Intelligence Quotes
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
Dan Barker
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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.
Javier Solana
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I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
Grace Dell Nichols
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
Ashok K. Banker
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Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
Edwin Catmull
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
Marcel Proust
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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
Alonzo King
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Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
Eloisa James
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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.
Elizabeth Wein
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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.
William John Locke
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
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I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Phaedrus
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
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If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both in the literal sense and with regard to our intelligence services. He shouldn't have access to these briefings.
Evan McMullin
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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Tiger Woods
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I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." - Alex.
Nicholas Sparks
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Stephen Covey
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The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.
Ernst Mayr
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I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
Ernest Holmes