Intelligence Quotes
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The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (Quote by - George S. Patton)
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. (Quote by - Henrik Tikkanen)
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. (Quote by - C. Archie Danielson)
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. (Quote by - Farrah Fawcett)
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,With loads of learned lumber in his head.~Alexander Pope)
I think the world is run by C students. (Quote by - Al McGuire)
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. (Quote by - Stanley Garn)
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. (Quote by - Herbert Clark Hoover)
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. (Quote by - Emerson M. Pugh)
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. (Quote by - Alfred N. Whitehead)
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. (Quote by - Joel Hildebrand)
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. (Quote by - Gerald Ford)
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. (Quote by - Henri Bergson)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacker )
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Intelligence is derived from two words (Quote by - inter and legere (Quote by - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance. (Quote by - J. Martin Klotsche)
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. (Quote by - Lisa Alther)
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. (Quote by - Don Herold)
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. (Quote by - James Mcneill Whistler)
We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Captive primates in pharmaceutical labs can signal their peers of the approach of a predator white coated lab technician spoken on Diane Rehm Show week of Jan 1, 2004. (Quote by - Tom Friend)
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Quote by - Albert Einstein
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. (Quote by - Socrates)
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. (Quote by - Socrates)
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are (Quote by - George Santayana)
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
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. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. (Quote by - Konrad Adenauer)
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain. (Quote by - Ivan Urlaub )
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
To the good listener half a word is enough. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. (Quote by - John Naisbitt)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations (Quote by - Andre Gide )
