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Quote 3104
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2739
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2701
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mysteryShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2647
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a foolShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2564
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2551
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of crueltyShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2485
Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothersShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2460
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplishedShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2389
There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligenceShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2381
Jesting is often only indigence of intellectShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2342
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truthShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2142
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to thinkShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2103
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunningShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 2015
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defenseShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1998
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and wellShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1996
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besidesShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1995
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the manShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1846
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of geniusShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1755
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compassShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1709
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's ownShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1707
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligenceShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1701
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.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1583
The less men think, the more they talk.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1268
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sicknessShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1242
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the bodyShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1134
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common senseShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 1127
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operationShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 949
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them againShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 907
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I knowShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 899
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most sillyShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 898
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heartShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 897
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statisticsShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 896
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servantShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 894
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 892
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as thinkShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 891
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itselfShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 890
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.Showing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 631
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answersShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 515
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friendsShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 289
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longerShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 280
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sexShowing Quotes on intelligence
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Quote 100
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experienceShowing Quotes on intelligence
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