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| "Allting är relativt", sade Einstein och han var ju relativt klok. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| De högsta intellekten, liksom bergstopparna, fångar gryningen först och återspeglar den. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Den första metoden att gissa intelligensen hos en härskare, är att se på dem han har omkring sig. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Den intelligente som är stolt över sin intelligens liknar fången som är stolt över sin stora cell. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Den ultimata intelligensen är inte att vara logisk, lösa matematiska problem eller vara allmänbildad, det är nog att kunna förstå sig på livet och lära sig njuta av det. | Henrik Jonsson (1982-) |
| En intelligent kvinna är en kvinna, i vars närvaro man kan vara hur dum man vill. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| En mans skönhet ligger i hans intelligens; en kvinnas intelligens i hennes skönhet. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| En människa som helt plötsligt börjar tänka, sätter världen i fara. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| En människas medfödda möjligheter är en rik klaviatur, på vilken livet i regel inte tillåter henne spela mer än Gubben Noak med ett finger. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| En stängd hjärna samlar ingen intelligens. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Ett intellekt som Titanic, i en värld full av isberg. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Genomsnittsflickan vill hellre vara vacker än intelligent, därför att genomsnittsmannens syn är skarpare än hans intelligens. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Gud har inte satt någon gräns för intellektet. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| I mån av möjlighet skulle herr P. varit en intelligenssnobb. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| Intellektet har lätt för metoder och verktyg, men svårt för mål och värderingar. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Intelligens är den egenskap mannen börjar leta efter hos en kvinna när han har funnit allt det andra. | Robert Lembke |
| Intelligens är den egenskap som mannen börjar leta efter hos en kvinna när han har funnit allt det andra. | Robert Lembke |
| Intelligens är förmågan att unvika arbete men ändå få arbetet utfört. | Linus Torvalds (1969-) |
| Intelligent folk talar om idéer. Vanligt folk talar om saker. Småfolk pratar om andra människor. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Intelligenta människor är aldrig mer skarpsinniga än då de har orätt. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Ju intelligentare man är desto fler märkliga människor träffar man. Vanliga människor märker ingen skillnad på folk. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Producerar man en vara som folk inte vill köpa är konsumenten intelligentare än producenten. | T-shirt |
| Säkert finns det intelligenta varelser på andra planeter. Annars hade vi haft dem här för länge sedan. | T-shirt |
| Vad fick trummisen på sitt IQ-test? Dreggel. | T-shirt |
| Vad som gör det svårt att välja vänner är att behagliga personer sällan är riktigt intelligenta och intelligenta personer sällan är riktigt behagliga. | T-shirt |
| Vi måste se till att intellektet inte blir vår gud, det har visserligen starka muskler, men ingen personlighet. | T-shirt |
| Visst finns det intelligent liv på Jorden, men jag är bara på tillfälligt besök. | T-shirt |
| Det er endnu ikke blevet bevist, at intelligens har nogen værdi for overlevelsen. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| Jo mere intelligent et menneske er, desto mere originalitet finder han i sine medmennsker. Ubegavede mennesker synes, at alle mennesker er ens | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Ængstelighedens grad er en målestok for intelligensen. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Klogskabens fordel består i, at man kan spille dum. Det modsatte er langt vanskeligere. | Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) |
| Hvis de indfødte udformede en IQ test, ville hele den vestlige civilisation sikkert dumpe. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Han er meget intelligent, men nogle gange stiger hjernen ham til hovedet. | Margot Asquith |
| 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. | Abigail Adams (1744-1818) |
| It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny. | Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-) |
| Efficiency is intelligent laziness. | David Dunham |
| Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. | E. F. Schumacker |
| 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. | Farrah Fawcett (1946-) |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. | Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984) |
| In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. | Lazarus Long |
| One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason | Marya Mannes (1904-1990) |
| Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| Intelligence is nothing without delight. | Paul Claudel (1868-) |
| It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. | Richard Hofstadter |
| They have a tourniquet on the brain. | Robert Duvall (1931-) |
| The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| None of us are as smart as all of us | Japanese Proverb |
| There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence | John Calvin (1509-1564) |
| Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. | John Ciardi (1916-1986) |
| Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. | John Sterling (1806-) |
| Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. | Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) |
| Belief is the death of intelligence | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. | Guillaume de Salluste |
| A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. | Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
| It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value | Stephen Hawking (1942-) |
| The universe is an intelligence test | Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| It is wiser to find out than to suppose | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 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. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times | Tao Te Ching |
| Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. | Tao Te Ching |
| The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| 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. | Farrah Fawcett (1946-) |
| 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; | Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal |
| The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| 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. | Abigail Adams (1744-1818) |
| Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done | Linus Torvalds (1969-) |
| Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden... | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. | Alfred Binet |
| It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. | Barbara Walters (1931-) |
| Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A full belly makes a dull brain | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands. | Charleszetta Waddles (1912-2001) |
| Efficiency is intelligent laziness. | David Dunham |
| An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years | English Proverb |
| The intellect is always fooled by the heart. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. | Frank Moore Colby (1865-1926) |
| Long on hair, short on brains | French Proverb |
| No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| To perceive things in the germ is intelligence | Lao Tzu |
| Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done | Linus Torvalds (1969-) |
| Am i so smart, or are you so dumb? | Louis van Gaal (1951-) |
| Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. | Richard Hofstadter |
| Belief is the death of intelligence | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. | Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) |
| The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| There is no method but to be very intelligent. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| The universe is an intelligence test | Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
| You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Alle intelligente tanker er allerede tenkt, det er bare nødvendig at noen tenker dem om igjen. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Bedre å være dum og god enn intelligent og ond. | Ranveig Sørensen |
| Dårer og intelligente mennesker er like uskadelige. Halvnarrer og halvkloke er de farligste | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Den virkelig prøve på intelligens er ikke hvor meget vi kan utrette, men hvordan vi oppfører oss når vi ikke vet hva vi skal gjøre | Ordtak |
| Det fine med å være intelligent er at det er så lett å spille dum, det er derfor jeg er russ. | Ordtak |
| Det fine med å være intelligent er at det er så lett å spille dum! Det motsatte er mye vanskeligere! | Ordtak |
| Det kan være eit godt hode under lurvet hatt. | Ordtak |
| En vesentlig del av den menneskelige intellektuelle begavelse går med til å produsere gode grunner for slette gjerninger. | Leif Holbøk Hansen |
| Han vasa mest som veit minst. | Ordtak |
| Hvis folk bare snakket om det de forstår seg på, ville stillheten bli uutholdelig. | Ordtak |
| Intelligens som ikke er parret med utdannelse, gjør omtrent samme nytten som en flaske øl uten opptrekker. | Prins Philip (1921-) |
| Intet gjør så meget skade i et samfunn som at de lure gjelder for de kloke. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Klokskap kan aldri kurere ren idioti.. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Simple things amuse simple minds | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |