Intelligence Quotes
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.Frank Kingdon
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.Henrik Tikkanen
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.Henrik Tikkanen
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.Albert Camus
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
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
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
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
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
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
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
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
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.Terry Thomas
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
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
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
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
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
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
Intelligence is nothing without delight.Paul Claudel
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.Bertrand Russell
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.Alan J. Perlis
