Intelligence Quotes
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
Laura Moser
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Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
Randy Forbes
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It deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.
B. R. Hayden
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw
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If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.
Clara Barton
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
Naveen Jain
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Henry Paulson
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
Roger Taylor
Queen
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Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
Anthony Marais
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
Alfred Jarry
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
Pythagoras
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward Beecher