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Letter "I" » Intelligence
«I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
conflicting, directly, entertain, entertains, felt, intelligence, number, points, points of view, reflected, simultaneously, topic, view
«Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.»
«God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.»
Author: Farrah Fawcett
| About:
Femininity,
Intelligence,
Men,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
combination, easily, femininity, gave, intelligent, intuition, intuitions, jumble, jumbled, jumbles, jumbling, met, necessarily, properly, stronger, The Brain, used
«If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain.»
«For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Intelligence,
Mankind
| Keywords:
added, brute, defense, instrument, powerless
«I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
colleague, colleagues, smart, smartest
«For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Foolishness,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
Brains, sake, The Young Man, young man
«He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Military
| Keywords:
already, brain, contempt, cord, corded, earned, file, filed, files, file in, filing, given, has-been, him, joyfully, large, Marches, march on, mistake, music, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rank and file, spinal, spinal cord, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
courageously, Great Spirit, hereditary, honestly, intelligence, latter, opposition, oppositions, prejudices, spirits, submit, submitting, thoughtlessly, uses, violent
«If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done»
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