Intelligence Quotes

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

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

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

Unknown

Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.

Black Elk

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Henry Adams

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

Stobaeus

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