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Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.
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Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
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Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide
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Intelligence is the ability to understand the problem and find a solution to that problem.
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Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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Baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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Intelligence is the ability to solve problems
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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
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So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower.
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Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Intelligence is using what you KNOW, in the right way, in the right place, at the right moment and with the right intention.
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Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
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SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.
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We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
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We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.
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I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.
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Intelligent people are those who work with or hire a person who is more intelligent than they are.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
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Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young
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Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extension: which is why in this respect one man can confidently take on ten thousand, and a thousand fools do not make one wise man.
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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Intelligence must be used for the benefit, and not to the detriment, of society. Those who use intelligence for their own personal gain or to the detriment of others have not properly borne the responsibility of their gift, and are not welcome in our faction.
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Intelligence is only real when shared
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The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.
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Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills
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As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.
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Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue
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Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.
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One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
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Intelligence is not how much you know, but how you use it.
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Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
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Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.
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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
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There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
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Intellect without humanity is not good enough ... what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
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The most satisfactory proof of intellectual strength is to be found in the existence of a power which enables the mind to conquer its prejudices and to correct its own errors
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Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind.
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The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
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This intelligence is the source of all genius.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
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There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
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The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.
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A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
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Intelligence helps you build a ship; wisdom helps you cross the ocean.
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The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
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Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.
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Intelligence helps you think inside of the box.
Creativity helps you think outside of the box.
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Wisdom Is The Principal Thing
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For us to perceive intelligence, it has to fit within our behavioural framework.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
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Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
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There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind.
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Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
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The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
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Kindness is the supreme intelligence.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.