Intelligence Quotes
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It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.
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There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
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The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.
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I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.
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Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.
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Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.
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The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.
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Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!
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My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.
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Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
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It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.
