Intelligence Quotes

Lao tzu - knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself...
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
Charles w. eliot - in the modern world the intelligence of public...
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Arthur c. clarke - it has yet to be proven that intelligence has any...
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
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo DaVinci
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
Stobaeus
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley Jr.
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
Joseph Weizenbaum
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.
E. B. White
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Dominique Bouhours
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
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
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
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
Frank Kingdon
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteu
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
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
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
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.
John Keats
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
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