Intelligence Quotes - Page 6

• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

  Roy H. Williams

  Wise, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspirational, Knowing, Doe

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

  Astro Teller

  Creativity, Bravery, Progress

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• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  Carl Sagan

  Funny, Brother, Laughter

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Optimistic

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

  Marty Feldman

  Funny, Life, Food

  "He Who Laughs Lasts". Book by Shawn Lovley (p. 51), March 2001.

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• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Good Life, Intelligent, Survival

  "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

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• Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

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

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• Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Mind, Ends

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 08, 2013

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

  John F. Akers

  United States, Satisfaction, Individual

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• The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Art, Philosophy

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander”, p.276

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Heaven, Genius, Granted

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• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  1929 Joe Proteus.The Apple Cart, act 1.

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• Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupidity, Limits, Fascinating

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Understanding

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Dumb, Easier

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• Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

  Don Herold

  Learning, Intelligent, Perspective

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus

  Feet, Mind, Suffering

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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