“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
“People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.”
“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”
“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.”
“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”
“In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.”
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”
“Intelligence is a moral category.”
“The universe is an intelligence test.”
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
“Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.”
“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”
“The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”