Intelligence Quotes

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

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 service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

E. B. White

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Charles W. Eliot

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

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

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

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

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

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead