Intelligence Quotes
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.Bertrand Russell
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.Frank Kingdon
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
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
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
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.G. K. Chesterton
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
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.William F. Buckley Jr.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.Henrik Tikkanen
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
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
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.Don Herold
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.Remy de Gourmont
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.Flower A. Newhouse
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.Bill Bulko
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.Jacques Maritain
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
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
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.Charles W. Eliot
