Intelligence

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  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
        Mary Pettibone Poole   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
        Plato   Best?
  • Let your desires be ruled by reason.
        Cicero   Best?
  • An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
        Dutch Proverb   Best?
  • Reality is only just a word.
        Harry Chapin   Best?
  • Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive James   Best?
  • A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
        Saul Bellow   Best?
  • The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
        Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
  • There's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.
        The Matrix   Best?
  • There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
        Janis Joplin   Best?
  • There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Discretion is not the better part of biography.
        Lytton Strachey   Best?
  • Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive Jones   Best?
  • Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
        Peter McWilliams   Best?
  • Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
        Nathaniel Emmons   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • By far the best proof is experience.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
        Seneca   Best?
  • An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
        Mata Hari   Best?
  • You have brains in your head.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • He was a wise man who invented God.
        Plato   Best?
  • When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
        Mignon McLaughlin   Best?
  • He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
        Epicurus   Best?
  • He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
        Bible   Best?

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