Intelligence Quotes

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

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

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

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".

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

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feathe

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

Stobaeus

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

Alan J. Perlis

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Unknown

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

Lao Tzu

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

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

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

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

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

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

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

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

H. L. 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

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Flower A. Newhouse

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

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Moralia

It is not clear that intelligence has any long - Term survival value.

Stephen William Hawking

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

Philo Vance

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

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon