First Rate Intelligence Quotes

#1. F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

Bill Maher

#2. 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.

James C. Collins

#3. The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

Victoria Schwab

#4. Elaina owned me completely and it was so good belonging to someone. So fuckin' good. I belonged to her as much as she belonged to me. Even more, really.

Raine Miller

#5. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hanna Arendt

#6. No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

John Calvin

#7. I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

William J. Clinton

#8. Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

Dan Shechtman

#9. And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory.

Stephen King

#10. Be the song in someone's heart; be the symphony in someone's soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Meir Soloveichik

#12. The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe