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Intelligence
«The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Testing
| Keywords:
first rate, First test, intelligence test, in the mind, opposed, rate, retain, The test
«The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;»
Author: Guillaume Thomas Raynal
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
accidentally, advantages, anticipates, chance upon, employs, explores, former, frequently, hits, latter, presents
«The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason»
«The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence,
Pride
| Keywords:
cell, condemned, proud, proud of
«The universe is an intelligence test»
Author: Timothy Leary
(Author, Psychologist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Universe
| Keywords:
intelligence test
«The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
estimates, estimating, intelligence, method, ruler, The Men
«The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
instrument, intellect, plays, serious
«Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
dab, euphemism, euphemisms, powerless