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- To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
- Edward Chapin
- So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 1966 speech
- Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
- Paterculus
- In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
- Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
- Moralia
- There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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