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1. “Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.”

Camille Paglia

Gender, Men, Intelligence, Society, Psychology

2. “Madonna’s great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.”

Camille Paglia

Madonna, Intelligence, Music, Culture, Entertainment

3. “Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.”

Camille Paglia

Homer, Intelligence, Philosophy, Practicality, Thinking

4. “In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.”

Camille Paglia

Intelligence, Success, Failure, IQ, Education

5. “He that cannot reason is a fool.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wisdom, Intelligence, Logic, Thinking, Knowledge

6. “If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.”

Guy Kawasaki

Marketing, Strategy, Intelligence, Business, Investment

7. “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart.”

Guy Kawasaki

Luck, Intelligence, Opportunity, Success, Mindset

8. “I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.”

Mitch Hedberg

Name, Brain, Humor, Intelligence, Mistake

9. “I can read minds, but I’m illiterate.”

Mitch Hedberg

Irony, Humor, Intelligence, Perception, Paradox

10. “A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.”

Charles Lamb

Knowledge, Social Interaction, Intelligence, Conversation, Perception

11. “Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne’er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”

Charles Lamb

Wit, Honor, Intelligence, Debate, Morality

12. “Light travels faster than sound. Isn’t that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?”

Steven Wright

Light, Sound, Perception, Intelligence, Humor

13. “I just found out I have an IQ of 208, and I don’t know what that means.”

Steven Wright

Intelligence, Knowledge, Logic, Numbers, Wit

14. “If I can't trust you, it doesn't matter how smart you are.”

Ankur Warikoo

Trust, Intelligence, Reliability, Relationships, Integrity

15. “You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”

Alvin Toffler

Data, Intelligence, Judgment, Skepticism, Decision-making

16. “Rational behavior, in particular, depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment.”

Alvin Toffler

Rationality, Behavior, Data, Intelligence, Adaptation

17. “In England people are very proud of being very stupid.”

V.S. Naipaul

England, Society, Intelligence, Pride, Criticism

18. “The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.”

V.S. Naipaul

Society, Intelligence, Power, Irony, Observation

19. “When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.”

Jack Ma

Focus, Intelligence, Strategy, Success, Growth

20. “I always find people smarter than I am. Then my job is to make sure smart people can work together. Stupid people can work together easily, smart people can’t.”

Jack Ma

Teamwork, Leadership, Intelligence, Collaboration, Strategy

21. “Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.”

Jack Ma

Wisdom, Intelligence, Leadership, Speaking, Thinking

22. “Last century, people competed with muscle. This century, it’s not muscle, it’s wisdom. If a person wants to be successful he should have a high EQ. If he doesn’t want to lose quickly, he should have a high IQ, but if he wants to be respected, he should have a high LQ, the Q of love.”

Jack Ma

Intelligence, Wisdom, EQ, IQ, Leadership

23. “Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team’s all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”

Jack Ma

Leadership, Intelligence, Perspective, Teamwork, Success

24. “The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”

Pythagoras

Soul, Intelligence, Reason, Passion, Wisdom

25. “Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!”

Pythagoras

Intelligence, Awareness, Perception, Wisdom, Existence

26. “There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.”

Democritus

Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Learning, Intelligence

27. “Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

Democritus

Learning, Intelligence, Wisdom, Knowledge, Perception

28. “Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.”

Democritus

Chance, Intelligence, Order, Wisdom, Fate

29. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.”

Scott Adams

Thinking, Imagination, Perspective, Awareness, Intelligence

30. “Idiocy in the modern age isn’t an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It’s a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.”

Scott Adams

Humor, Intelligence, Life, Perspective, Awareness

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