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Quotes About Intelligence

In life we learn that we have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is better than we are in character or intelligence.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
People have called me crazy; but the question is not yet settled, whether craziness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Mrkgnao! the cat cried. They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we understand them. She understands all she wants to. Vindictive too. Cruel. Her nature.
~ James Joyce
When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is a too stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered a dullard an opportunity to participate in the warmer movement of a more highly organised life.
~ James Joyce
excrementitious intelligence...
~ James Joyce
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~ James Joyce
His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.
~ James Joyce
Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
~ James Lee Burke
You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.
~ James Lovegrove
Galen didn't know anything about Tarkin, other than that he had served in the Republic Navy before being appointed adjutant general. A tall man some ten or fifteen years older than Galen, he had sunken cheeks, a high brow, and a look of penetrating intelligence.
~ James Luceno
My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs.
~ James Luceno
Where Bith intelligence was grounded in mathematics and computation, Muun intelligence was driven by a will to profit.
~ James Luceno
Ain't that funny? You fall for a guy because he's smart and then you find out he's smart.
~ James M. Cain
You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director) And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said. (Max)
~ James Patterson
They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)
~ James Patterson
Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.
~ James Patterson
short, dark hair and strong shoulders. He had a handsome, intelligent
~ James Patterson
George, though, brings back some daunting intelligence after a September 1963 visit to Benton, Illinois, where his sister, Louise, lives. "They don't know us," he reports. "It's going
~ James Patterson
guy's a junkie, but he's not stupid. I
~ James Patterson
I'm not a dumbass, but I am a prick.
~ James Patterson
Better readers are better thinkers.
~ James Patterson
Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
~ James Patterson
mind was only as good as the questions it was asked and the orders it was given.
~ James Patterson
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
~ John Sununu