Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."
Intelligence quotes
Intelligence
320 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."
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"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
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"Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything."
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back."
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."
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"Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know."
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"He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others."
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
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"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
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"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."
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"Ignorance never settles a question."
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"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
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"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious."
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"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat."
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
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"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
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"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
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"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals."
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