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Intelligence

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. – Andrea Dworkin

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. – Phaedrus

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. – John Podhoretz

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. – Jose Mourinho

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. – Alistair Cooke

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. – Miguel de Unamuno

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. – Arthur C. Clarke

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain. – Karl Von Clausewitz

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Leacock

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry Adams

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. – Paul Harris

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. – William Ellery Channing

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. – Sophia Bush

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. – Arlen Specter

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West