Intelligence Quotes

James russell lowell - it is not the insurrections of ignorance that are...
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Raymond chandle - chess is as elaborate a waste of human...
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteu
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
Arthur c. clarke - it has yet to be proven that intelligence has any...
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley Jr.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
E. H. Chapin
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
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
Paterculus
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo DaVinci
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
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
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Philo Vance
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
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.
John Keats
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.
Albert Camus
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
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
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
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
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
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
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
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Dominique Bouhours
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
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