Intelligence Quotes

William feathe - one of the indictments of civilizations is that...
It is not clear that intelligence has any long - Term survival value.
Stephen William Hawking
Flower a. newhouse - lack of will power has caused more failure than...
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
Ambrose bierce - in our civilization, and under our republican...
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.
Black Elk
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.
Time Bandits
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
G. K. Chesterton
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
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
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
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.
E. B. White
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
Terry Thomas
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Unknown
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
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
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
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
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