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Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
intelligence
Language
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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.”
Sigmund Freud
intelligence
weakness
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
George Orwell
intelligence
wisdom
It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
intelligence
mind
world
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.”
Emanuel Swedenborg
intelligence
truth
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell
doubt
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
idea
intelligence
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
Immanuel Kant
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Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
intelligence
others
Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.”
Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
architecture
book
Human nature
intelligence
strength
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Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
Milan Kundera
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L'Art du roman
intelligence
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
intelligence
to understand
word
The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
intelligence
Prudence
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.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince
intelligence
to understand
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools for making tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.”
Henri Bergson
intelligence
Intelligence is a moral category.”
Theodor W. Adorno
intelligence
When we are not intelligible, we are not intelligent.”
Victor Hugo
intelligence
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Winston Churchill
intelligence
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
Bertrand Russell
intelligence
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
Marcel Proust
intelligence
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
Salvador Dalí
intelligence
wings
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
Bertrand Russell
education
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?”
Henry David Thoreau
earth
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
change
intelligence
strength
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
Victor Hugo
intelligence
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
Bertolt Brecht
intelligence
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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.”
Henri Bergson
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
Henri Bergson
Instinct
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway
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