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Quotations on the topic of ‘intelligence’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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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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“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” -Irene Peter
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“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” -E. B. White
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“To think is to practice brain chemistry.” -Deepak Chopra
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“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.” -John Fowles
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“Belief is the death of intelligence.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.” -Ed Parker
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“An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.” -Spiro T. Agnew
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“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” -Lena Horne
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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson
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“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” -Roger Ebert
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“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -A. A. Milne
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“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” -Gracie Allen
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“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.” -Janis Joplin
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“Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” -Helen Gurley Brown
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“Genius is initiative on fire.” -Holbrook Jackson
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“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” -Jonathan Swift
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“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” -Ronald Reagan
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“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” -Dolly Parton
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“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” -Julius Charles Hare
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“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” -Paul Cezanne
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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” -Mark Twain
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“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” -Oscar Wilde
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury
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