Quotes with intelligence

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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Malcolm X I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Lisa Alther I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Antonio Gramsci I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Abigail Adams 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.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Carl Sagan If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage - to make it the tool of our survival.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Frist If Senator Reid had come to me and said, 'This is a problem,' which he never did, I would have said, 'Let's talk about it.' I would have said, 'Let's bring in the Intelligence Committee or the leaders, and let's talk about it in a civil, a dignified, a respectful way.
    Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session, Fox News, November 1, 2005.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Arlen Specter If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Lao-Tzu If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Marya Mannes In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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  • Albert Einstein In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Herbert Hoover In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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