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Quotes About Intelligence

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
~ John Wayne
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.
~ Charlie Munger
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
~ Kid Koala
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
~ Frank Drake
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
~ David Lynch
Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.
~ Damon Runyon
It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
~ Elena Kagan
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
~ Wayne Teasdale
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
~ Garrison Keillor
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
~ Calvin Coolidge
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.
~ Antony Flew
I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.
~ Rafael Nadal
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
~ Stella Gibbons
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
~ Sylvia Earle
The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.
~ Tucker Max
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
~ Leon Panetta
I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.
~ Wayne Dyer
Let's talk about the SAT. You got a 2280.
~ Jennifer Niven
I feel jealous, just for a second, of his brain. In this moment, mine feels so ordinary.
~ Jennifer Niven