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- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
- To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
- Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
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