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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

by Don Herold (Writer, American , born in 1889) keywords: intelligence, irritating, less, more, nobody, sense, somebody , than

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

by Napoleon Hill (Writer, American , born in 1883) keywords: action, intelligence, measure , real

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

by Victor Hugo (Author, French , born in 1802) keywords: imagination, intelligence, memory, mistress, servant , wife

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Businessman, American , born in 1942) keywords: brain, cheap, compete, labor , power

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

by Georg C. Lichtenberg (Physicist , born in 1970) keywords: bright, closer, everyone, genius, geniuses, ideas, least, once, real, simply, their, together , year

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

by Groucho Marx (Comedian, American , born in 1895) keywords: child

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

by John Stuart Mill (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) keywords: originality

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

by Dolly Parton (Musician, American , born in 1946) keywords: also, because, blonde, dumb, jokes, know , offended

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

by Alexander Pope (Poet, English , born in 1688) keywords: creates, genius, preserves, sense, sublime , taste

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

by Alexander Pope (Poet, English , born in 1688) keywords: blockhead, head, his, learned, loads, lumber , read

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

by Ronald Reagan (President, American , born in 1911) keywords: because, great, growth, human, imagination, intelligence, limits , wonder

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

by Friedrich Schiller (Dramatist, German , born in 1759) keywords: bound, every, genius, naive , true

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

by Susan Sontag (Author, American , born in 1933) keywords: ideas, intelligence, kind, really , taste

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: make, mind, much, must, prodigious, quantity, sometimes, takes, up , week

Common sense is not so common.

by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: common , sense

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

by James Whistler (Artist, American , born in 1834) keywords: because, genius, granted, heaven, hereditary, offspring , tell

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

by E. B. White (Comedian, American , born in 1899) keywords: cracked, found, genius, more, often, pot, than , whole

Robert Anton Wilson

Belief is the death of intelligence.

by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: belief, death , intelligence

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: borrow, brains, only , use

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

by George Woodcock (Writer, Canadian , born in 1912) keywords: free, intelligence, man, wide , world

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