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Quotations by Subject: Intelligence (24 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.: Norman Podhoretz
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.: Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Results from Classic Quotes:

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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