intelligence Quotes

“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:religion intelligence pride

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:happiness knowledge intelligence

“The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

topic:stupidity intelligence

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

topic:memory intelligence

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

topic:mind intelligence

“Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

topic:understanding intelligence

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

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:government intelligence

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:women beauty intelligence

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