Intelligence Quotes

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".

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

It is not clear that intelligence has any long - Term survival value.

Stephen William Hawking

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 far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

Stobaeus

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

Terry Thomas

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Unknown

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

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

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

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Unknown

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

G. K. Chesterton

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.

John Keats

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.

Time Bandits

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

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

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley Jr.