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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHT, Baal
Intelligence forbids tears.
DORIS LESSING, A Man and Two Women
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, "The Crack Up"
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, as quoted in Jerry Mayer's Bite-Size Einstein
Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.
H.B. BARLOW, The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.
STEPHEN KING (as Richard Bachman), Blaze
- 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 SHI, "On the Birth of His Son"
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
ERICH FROMM, The Sane Society
An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKY, Untimely Thoughts
On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.
TOBSHA LEARNER, The Witch of Cologne
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