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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

William Morris

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Arthur D. Levinson

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Christopher Columbus

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Christopher Lee

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J. K. Rowling

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

Mika

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

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

Phaedrus

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Sigmund Freud