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Intelligence Quotes


The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Wit is educated insolence.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.