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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Henri Bergson
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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
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. -Robert J. Shiller
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -Bill Watterson
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Harriet Martineau
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford
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Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -Lazarus Long
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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
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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Hofstadter
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. -Henrik Tikkanen
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The universe is an intelligence test.

Timothy Leary
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. -John Sterling
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Barbara Walters
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer
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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -Linus Torvalds
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You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

Charleszetta Waddles
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Peter
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They have a tourniquet on the brain. -Robert Duvall
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana
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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

John Ciardi
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -G. H. Hardy
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke
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A mind too active is no mind at all. -Theodore Roethke
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