"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

Intelligence, Credit, Problems

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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Intelligence, Ignorance, Self, Knowledge

"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Intelligence, Suspicion, Humor, Trust

"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Intelligence, Identity, Science, Logic

"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

Intelligence, Knowledge, Power, Confidence

"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Intelligence, Question, Knowledge, Wisdom

"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Awareness

"We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence."

Voltaire, French Writer

Intelligence, Creation, God, Design

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Intelligence, Education, Knowledge, Learning

"Intelligence is a moral category."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

Life, Mom, HusbBeing

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

Death, Love, Treatment

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

People,

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

Time, People, Emotions, Privilege

"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

Beer, Compliment

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."

Thought, Performance, Audiences, Being

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

Joy,

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

Business, Mom, Money, Work

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

Success, Truth, Future, Play

"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."

World,