Intelligence Quotes
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.G. K. Chesterton
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.Arthur C. Clarke
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.Unknown
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.E. B. White
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.Sybil Marshall
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.Remy de Gourmont
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 Toffle
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.Jacques Maritain
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.Groucho Marx
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert E. Wiggam
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
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.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
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
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.Don Herold
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.Henrik Tikkanen
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.Bill Bulko
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.Frank Kingdon
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
