Intelligence

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  • Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
        Dean Koontz   Best?
  • The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
        Qui-Gon Jinn   Best?
  • Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • Perception is strong, sight is weak.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Knowing is half the battle.
        GI Joe   Best?
  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • A word to the wise is infuriating.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?
  • Discretion is the better part of valor.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
        Leo Buscaglia   Best?
  • If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.
        Max Lucado   Best?
  • The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
        Henry Beston   Best?
  • Literature is news that stays news.
        Ezra Pound   Best?
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
        Horace   Best?
  • O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
        Stephen Hawking   Best?
  • The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
        Mohammed Neguib   Best?
  • There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
        Russian proverb   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?

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