Intelligence Quotes
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.Bertrand Russell
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 are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.Eugene S. Wilson
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.Henrik Tikkanen
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
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Saul Bellow
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.Frank Kingdon
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
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.Isadora Duncan
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
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.Homer, The Odyssey
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.Edgar Allan Poe
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.Bill Bulko
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.Bertrand Russell
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.Remy de Gourmont
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.E. B. White
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
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
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
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.Charles W. Eliot
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
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
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
