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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Intelligence quotient
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It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.
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It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
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It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
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James Russel Lowell, reported in a Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 353.
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Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), “Of the Affections,” #71
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John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915), pp. 26-27
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John Keats, Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, April 1819, in The Letters of John Keats, p. 327
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Just as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions.
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Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
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Kent Owen, Review of Profscam: Professors And The Demise Of Higher Education in The American Spectator (May 1989), p. 44.