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

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 ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Tao Te Ching

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Unknown

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times

Unknown

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.

Unknown

Tact is the intelligence of the heart

Unknown

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value

Stephen Hawking

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force

George Bancroft

Belief is the death of intelligence

Robert Anton Wilson

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity

Unknown

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

Albert Einstein

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

Unknown

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Alfred Binet

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

Unknown

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

Simone Weil

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason

Marya Mannes

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