Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

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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



The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.



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



Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. - Simone Weil



The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi



Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. - Helen Keller



Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. - Richard David Bach



If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. - Dwight David Eisenhower



Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein



No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. - Stephen Jay Gould