High Intelligence Quotes

#1. Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world,

Lucas Delattre

#2. The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Ernst Mayr

#4. Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

John Fowles

#7. Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

Charles Williams

#8. There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#9. High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Martin Seligman

#14. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.

John Fowles

#15. Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck

#16. The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. What are dogs thinking?" the grand conclusion was this: they're thinking about what we're thinking. The dog-human relationship was not one-sided. With their high degree of social and emotional intelligence, dogs reciprocated our feelings toward them. They truly are First Friend.

Gregory Berns

#18. I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Anthony Hecht

#19. High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.

Susan Jacoby

#20. The tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes

James Joyce

#21. I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

January Jones

#22. Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#23. Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.

Daniel Goleman

#24. A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

Sun Tzu

#25. You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.

John Fowles

#26. Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#28. U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Barton Gellman

#29. These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

Lynda Barry

#30. You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#31. What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

Simon Morden

#32. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

James A. Garfield

#33. But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.

Francine Prose

#34. The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

Arthur Koestler

#35. History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.

Angelo Codevilla

#36. Many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.

Daniel Goleman

#37. Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.

Stephen King

#38. If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".

Bill Maher

#39. I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

Kelly Thompson

#40. Admittedly, most high school guys lack emotional intelligence. They develop it later in life."
I smiled. "Are you telling me guys are dumb?

Heather Davis

#41. This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence.

Gustave Le Bon

#42. Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#43. Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bergen Evans

#44. The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

Bernard Iddings Bell

#45. When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#46. My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.

Peter Landesman

#47. Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders

John Yoo

#48. It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. The reaper can be produced only in countries where labor receives a high reward, where farmers own their own acres without fear of being despoiled by invading armies, where average of intelligence is as high in the country as in the city.

Herbert Newton Casson

#50. I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle

Iain M. Banks

#51. It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.

Mikko Hypponen

#52. In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don't see the darkness, wait for the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#53. The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

Philip K. Dick

#54. The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.

Steven Johnson

#55. I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.

Christine Ebersole

#56. We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Euripides

#57. It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

Giordano Bruno

#58. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.

Eric Laughton

#59. We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort
and our standards will keep rising.
We want to feel, we want to experience,
we want to connect, we want intelligence,
and we want to play;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
A new theatre is on its way.

Natasha Tsakos

#60. I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, " upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?

Alexandre Dumas

#61. I wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.

Immortal Technique

#62. You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

Amit Kalantri

#63. There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

George Hamilton

#64. Be the star in someone's sky.
Love with light from the high.

Debasish Mridha

#65. The cells of all vegetation have a very high order of intelligence. The cells of all animal life likewise have a very high order of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

#66. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Karen Russell

#67. Business intelligence is essentially timely, accurate, high-value, and actionable business insights, and the work processes and technologies used to obtain them.

Swain Scheps

#68. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

Carl Sagan

#69. Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

Edward O. Wilson

#70. I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#71. During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.

Donald Keyhoe