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Intelligence Quotes
"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
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"Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry."
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"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
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"Intelligence is not information. Intelligence is imagination and creativity."
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"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
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"Is there anything like a collective brain?"
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"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."
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"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."
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"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."
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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
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"An adaptive mind has better learning capability."
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"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."
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"True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect, it causes harm."
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"Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence."
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"Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."
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"Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words."
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"If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.""We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man.""Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart."
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"Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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"The average IQ in America is-and this can be proven mathematically-average."
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"Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life."
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"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible."
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"It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience."
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"Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind."
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"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."
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"Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions-and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth."
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"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
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"I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb."
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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
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"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
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"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
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"No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in."
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"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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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!"
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