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Intelligence Quotes
"Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence."
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"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity."
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"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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"Application of common sense is Intelligence."
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
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"Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."
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"A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass."
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"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one."
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"I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency."
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
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"Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!"
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"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."
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"Harold is clever from Person of Interest."
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"Your total intelligence knows exactly what to do, because you were made to weather the storms of life."
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"To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win."
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"Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!"
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"The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment. Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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"Your insight is your asset the edge you require to succeed."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite."
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"Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas."
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
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"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
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"Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body."
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"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."
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"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom." "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. "It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader."
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"A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!"
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"A truly intelligent person does not cling to any ideology."
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"Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does."
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"Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex."
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"It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it."
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"Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
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"You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance."
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"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
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"Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters."
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"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
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"One of my friends compared me to Bruce Banner, due to my work with radiation and human health. So I looked up Bruce Banner and this is what I found: Banner, a physicist, is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in Incredible Hulk #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn in most fashions...Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test." He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics."
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"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."
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"He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence."
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"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."
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"If you think you're smart,think twice to be smarter."
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"Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals."
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