Quotes 81 till 100 of 160.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
On War (1832) -
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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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.
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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 genius.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
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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.
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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russells Best -
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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