Intelligence Quotes - Page 2

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Important, May

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• Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

  Terry Goodkind

  Character, Men, Novelists

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.56, Head of Zeus

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• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Reading

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• The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

  Andre Gide

  Wisdom, Suffering, Limitation

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• Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

  Walther Rathenau

  Opponents, Assuming, Smarter

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Smart, Fall

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  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

  Jean Piaget

  Long Distance Relationship, Learning, Distance Love

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

  Laozi

  Education, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Respect, Religious

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

  Don Herold

  Education, Smart, Ignorance

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

  Jim Parsons

  Sexy, Thinking, Irritation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Stupid People, Idiot, Wonder

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• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  Ed Parker

  Success, Learning, Intelligent

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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