Intelligence Quotes

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

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

Time Bandits

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

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

Moralia

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.

Philo Vance

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Raymond Chandle

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

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

Albert Camus

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

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

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

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

Dominique Bouhours

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

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

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

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Unknown

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

E. B. White

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

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

Leonardo DaVinci

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meye

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Paterculus