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Intelligence is not how much you know, but how you use it. ↗

— Maryann Austin

#maryann-austin #intelligence

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

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Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension. ↗

— Peter Watts

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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ↗

— Ed Parker

#accomplishments #fulfilled #intelligent #intelligent man #learn

There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time in now ↗

— Unsure of origin

#intelligent #wise #inspirational

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes - how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

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If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#humanity #intelligence #intelligence