Quotes: intelligence
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) -
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
