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“A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.”

Way Girl Brain Intelligence Mysterious Superficial

Author:James Agee

“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.”

Moral Virtue Fire Intelligence Application

Book:Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

Source: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

“The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”

Doe Values Race Intelligence Doomed

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.”

Intelligence Ghost Familiar Gulls Affable

Author:William Shakespeare

“People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.”

People Looks Smart Intelligence Really Smart

Author:James Randi

“Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure”

Feelings Memories Pleasure Opinion Class Intelligence Delight Enjoyment Reasoning Desirable Kindred

Author:Socrates

“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”

People Perspective Treats Intelligent Intelligence Scully

Author:Gillian Anderson

“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.”

“What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”

People Ifs Men Want Humans Real Seems Individual Quality Greatness Produce Depends Civilization Intelligence Loyalty Command Chains Urges Collapse Commerce Organisation Chain Of Command

Author:Frank Herbert

“My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.”

Enough My Own Rooms Brain Pieces Intelligent Hot Safety Faults Intelligence Stores Primaries Equipment Entering Momentum Protective Presumption

Author:Max Barry

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”

Compassion Taken Fronts Tvs Eating Cat Unions Intelligence Careful Intellect Be Careful

Author:Vera Nazarian