Intelligence Quotes

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandle

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Gen Alfred Gray, USMC

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Howard Gardne

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

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

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.

Black Elk

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

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