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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." Leonardo da Vinci 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." Leonardo da Vinci 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change." Charles Robert Darwin 4.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness." Charles Robert Darwin Rate this Quote
"As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is." Robertson Davies 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealised past." Robertson Davies 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts." Clarence Day 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." Eugene V. Debs 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out." James Dent 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." John Dewey 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." Denis Diderot Rate this Quote
"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth." Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes." (George) Norman Douglas 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." Alexandre Dumas 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body." Isadora Duncan 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." Roger 4.6250 average rating Rate this Quote
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." Thomas Alva Edison 3.9231 average rating Rate this Quote
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." Albert Einstein 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
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