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Quotations by Subject: Intelligence (24 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.: Unknown
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.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.: Alvin Toffler

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister: Su Tung-p'o
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.: Remy de Gourmont
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.: Tom Wolfe (1931 - ), "Bonfire of the Vanities"
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.: E.B. White

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