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I think the world is run by C students.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart. [They] want to be just one of the boys.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
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Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.
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Common Sense is not so common.
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The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
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Charles F. Kettering Quotes

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Primitive does not mean stupid.
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Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
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Woody Allen Quotes

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Mark Twain Quotes

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The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
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It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
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