Intelligence Quotes
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
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
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
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Saul Bellow
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.E. H. Chapin
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.Terry Thomas
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.Remy de Gourmont
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.Bill Bulko
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
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
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.William F. Buckley Jr.
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
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.G. K. Chesterton
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.Marya Mannes
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.Philo Vance
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.Arthur C. Clarke
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.Time Bandits
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
