#intelligence

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

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THE FINAL TOUCH Portrait of nobody in particular Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent. ↗

— Piet Hein

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Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy. ↗

— Josephine Yun

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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.” --The Tao Te Ching ↗

— The Tao Te Ching

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When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft. ↗

— John C. Bogle

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The tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes ↗

— James Joyce

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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet, ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

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Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. ↗

— Christine Baranski

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