Intelligence Quotes

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

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

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

Paterculus

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Unknown

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Raymond Chandle

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

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

Time Bandits

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

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

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

Lao Tzu

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

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

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

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

Stephen Leacock

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 may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

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

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Leonardo DaVinci

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

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

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

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Charles W. Eliot

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Gen Alfred Gray, USMC