616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.” — Jim Lehrer

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“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” — Daniel Goleman

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“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” — Charles Kettering

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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.” — Henry Adams

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“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.” — Joseph Pulitzer

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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” — Susan Sontag

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“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.” — Diogenes

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“I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.” — Kristin Hersh

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“I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” — James Whistler

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“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” — Tom Robbins

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“People are smarter than you might think.” — John Astin

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“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” — Don Herold

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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.” — G. H. Hardy

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“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” — Steve Wozniak

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“Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.” — Irene Peter

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“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.” — Thomas a Kempis

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“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.” — Don Van Vliet

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“Remember to be as smart as you are.” — Judd Nelson

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“Intelligence is not a science.” — Frank Carlucci

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“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.” — Ernest Newman

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“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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