Top Intelligence Quotes
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X 
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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
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Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
Blanche Lincoln
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Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
Markus Wolf
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Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
Chris Cannon
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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
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
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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
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Edward Thorndike
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Popular Intelligence Authors
Henry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoWinston ChurchillAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenGilbert K. ChestertonBertrand RussellGeorge SantayanaAlbert CamusRonald ReaganMartin Luther King, Jr.David Herbert LawrenceJohn F. Kennedy
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