Top 100 Intelligence Is Quotes
#1. It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
#2. Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.
Ray Kurzweil
#3. Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
Wale
#4. Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
Marvin Minsky
#5. Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity - Anonymous
Iain Clements
#6. Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
Lytton Strachey
#7. Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#8. Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.
Susan Sontag
#10. This intelligence is the source of all genius.
Victor Boc
#11. I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
Louise Erdrich
#12. Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#13. [T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#14. You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
Linus Torvalds
#15. Intelligence is only real when shared
Unknown
#16. Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
Rumi
#17. Your level of intelligence is only as valuable as your ability to communicate it to someone else.
Richard Schultz
#18. Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
Adeo Ressi
#19. None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.
Jim C. Hines
#20. We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland Barthes
#21. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.
James Rozoff
#23. I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.
Simon Conway Morris
#24. Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#25. The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.
Robert Sheckley
#26. Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
Howard Gardner
#27. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
#28. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston S. Churchill
#29. Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.
Jaggi Vasudev
#30. Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
Laozi
#31. I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
David Fincher
#32. Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
Cus D'Amato
#33. Intelligence is not based on how smart you're, but your ability to do things right and achieving the required results.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#34. Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young
Ray Kurzweil
#35. Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James
#36. A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
Wayne W. Dyer
#37. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
Jean Cocteau
#38. Air, water, earth, fire
Are just energy
Just like your body is
But Heart Intelligence is something else
Be brave and journey inward to find out.
Gabriel Iqbal
#40. Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil
#41. Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Charles Kettering
#42. Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is.
Debasish Mridha
#43. You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.
Robert Kiyosaki
#45. But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival.
Carl Sagan
#46. For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Dante Alighieri
#47. When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.
Fred D'Aguiar
#48. To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action.
Belsebuub
#49. Intelligence is Attractive,
Kindness is Heart Melting,
But a combination of the two
is Irresistible.
Drishti Bablani
#50. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
#51. Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach those with brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same.
J.K. Rowling
#52. Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Raheel Farooq
#53. Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.
Suzy Kassem
#54. Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers.
Debasish Mridha
#55. One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.
Bertrand Russell
#56. High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#58. The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength.
James Dillehay
#60. F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'
Bill Maher
#61. Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Ken Robinson
#62. The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
#63. We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
Susan Sontag
#64. An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
Kevin Kelly
#65. An important element of intelligence is self-control.
Jesse Payne
#67. A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.
Jay Leno
#68. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
#69. Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
Victoria Principal
#70. Intelligence is using what you KNOW, in the right way, in the right place, at the right moment and with the right intention.
Mike George
#71. When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.
Lord Krishna
#72. Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.
Jack McDevitt
#74. Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
Saxby Chambliss
#75. In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.
Carl Sagan
#77. My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
Edith Piaf
#78. I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
Morarji Desai
#79. Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
Sam Altman
#80. By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#81. One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expensive of logic.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#82. Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Edward De Bono
#83. The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#85. Stupidity is brief and straightforward, while intelligence is tortuous and sneaky.
Anonymous
#86. The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
Pete Hoekstra
#87. Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#88. Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
Al Gore
#89. The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.
Tyrese Gibson
#90. The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.
Robert Sternberg
#91. Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide
Marcelle Hinkson
#92. Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.
Carl Sagan
#93. Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.
Veronica Roth
#94. Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
Garrison Keillor
#95. 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.
Lisa Alther
#96. The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.
Franklin Edgerton
#97. For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
G.H. Hardy
#98. Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?
Adrian McKinty
#100. It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action ... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Alexis Carrel
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