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Intelligence Quotes

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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Nikola Tesla

Eccentricity is a sign of astuteness in a universe of conformists.
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2.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A hallmark of wisdom is a recognition of one's lack of knowledge.
3.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day we should be exposed to at least one melodic tune, peruse one fine piece of poetry, behold one beautiful image, and, if feasible, utter a few judicious phrases.
4.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

5.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The capacity to watch without judging is the supreme level of intellect.
6.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

Mundane matters occupy the thoughts of brilliant individuals, while trivial affairs captivate those with limited intellect.
7.
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

The hallmark of acumen is that you continually ponder. Dullards are always completely certain of every single thing they are doing in their life.
8.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
Marie-Antoine Careme

When culinary skill fades from the world, literature shall wither, intelligence be dulled, sociability vanish, and amity dissolve.
9.
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

'It is likely that I consider myself to be of superior intellect solely due to the fact that nothing I have endeavored has ever been brought to completion.'
10.
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

11.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

12.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana

13.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
Rudolf Nureyev

14.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
Richard Lewis

15.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell

16.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz

17.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Laozi

18.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Samuel Johnson

19.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant

20.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

21.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin

22.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds

23.
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Alexander Pope

24.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

25.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll

26.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

27.
To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.
Truman G. Madsen

28.
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
Howard Whitley Eves

29.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams

30.
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke

31.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Astro Teller

32.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

33.
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
Stanley Crouch

34.
When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
Irwin Corey

35.
Looks fade. Brains don't.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

36.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

37.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
Bertrand Russell

38.
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset

39.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
Elsa Maxwell

40.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Eric Temple Bell

41.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

42.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi

43.
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
Alexander Cannon

44.
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.
Madeleine Albright

45.
Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.
Karl Brandt

46.
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci

47.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

48.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews

49.
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

50.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin