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Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence; your beauty is enhanced; your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking

Mata Amritanandamayi

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Jose Bergamin

The work is often deadly and boring, but it requires a keen intelligence, and the only way I can compete with large corporations is to treat my employees better, move them up faster, give them more money and put mirrors in the bathrooms.

James R. Uffelman

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Thomas S. Szasz

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Aldrich Ames

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Edison

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Dorothy Thompson

Never doubt your own intelligence and common sense.

Anita Foley

Education is...One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand A. Russell

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

George Scialabba

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence

Unknown

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Herbert Clark Hoover

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Elbert Hubbard

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Dr. Carl Sagan

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

Andre Gide

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

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

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory

Leonardo da Vinci

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Will Rogers

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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