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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.]
Terry Pratchett
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.




Stephen Hawking
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Andrew Tobias
"Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,..."
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Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.
Alice Borchardt
Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?
James Clavell
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Marcus Aurelius
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.




Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Marcus Aurelius
The intelligence of the universe is social.
Cesare Pavese
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
Garrison Keillor
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
He has the intelligence of 12 professors and is as pious as a child on the day of his first communion.
Fernando Pessoa
The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Anonymous
If you can't dazzle them with your intelligence, baffle them with your bullshit.
Ivan Agayants
Old intelligence hands still remember this good-natured and wise man.


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