Intelligence Quotes

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

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

Marya Mannes

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Alfred E. Wiggam

Action is the real measure of intelligence. 

Napoleon Hill

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is collected and used.

Carl Sagan

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Mark Twain

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

James Cone

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

Sigmund Freud

With knowledge grows doubt.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. 

Titus Livius

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Bryant H. McGill

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is ability to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao Tzu

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

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