Intelligence Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about intelligence.

The men who have the intelligent expression, disappoint later because they do not give everything they promised us. In this sense, it is an advantage to seem foolish.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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All things partake in everything, while intelligence is infinite and governs itself and is not mixed with anything.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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Intelligence is the purest of all things. It has total knowledge of everything and is the ultimate force.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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The intelligence knows all things and ordered all things that are to be and those that were and those that are now and those that are not.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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Real intellectual exercise does not consist of following trends, but of facing the difficulties of one's own time.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is nothing that does more harm to a nation than cunning people passing for intelligent.

Bernard M. Baruch

Bernard M. Baruch

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Millions of people saw an apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why.

Nicolai Hartmann

Nicolai Hartmann

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Intelligence is the function that adapts the means to the ends.

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard

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Less capable minds are interested in the extraordinary; powerful minds in ordinary things.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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The intelligent person seeks the experience they want to accomplish.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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There are three types of intelligence: human intelligence, animal intelligence, and military intelligence.