Intelligent Intelligence Quotes

#1. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.

George Orwell

#2. Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, civilization becomes clearer and unfortunately, more distressing.

D.A. Blankinship

#3. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...

Eva Ibbotson

#4. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

George Steinbrenner

#5. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#6. Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.

Debasish Mridha

#7. To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It's undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn't create.

Bernie Siegel

#8. Social intelligence is a function of culture. In other words, the behaviours and characteristics one culture considers socially intelligent are not necessarily deemed socially intelligent by another. (Dong, Koper & Collaco 2008, 165). Social intelligence is something that we learn

Anonymous

#9. Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

David Quammen

#10. Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most and leave the intelligent to become an endangered species.

Mike Judge

#11. Our biggest problem is that our intelligence is not intelligent

Julius Malema

#12. It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted presumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past - our material knowledge has increased, but not our intelligence.

C. G. Jung

#13. It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.

Daniel Willey

#14. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G.H. Hardy

#15. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Criss Jami

#16. The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

B.F. Skinner

#17. There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.

Bryant McGill

#18. For if we do not know even how we manage to be conscious and intelligent, it is most rash to assume that we know what the role of conscious intelligence will be, and still more that it is competent to order the world.

Alan W. Watts

#19. An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.

Roberta Pearce

#21. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal

#22. The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

#23. The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. Even in the latter case nature exhibits a kind of intelligence, and there is no reason to rule out the possibility that machines will do so too. If nature in the form of the human species could bring forth intelligent machines, the process of evolution would continue among the machines.

John N. Gray

#25. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#26. In a group of intelligent men people expect only one to be wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Bertrand Russell

#28. 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

#29. Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

Iman

#30. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

John Green

#31. I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Criss Jami

#32. Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

Democritus

#33. Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

William A. Dembski

#34. I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

Stephen Hawking

#35. The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Frans De Waal

#38. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

#39. Chance ... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

Jean Piaget

#40. The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

Christian Finnegan

#41. A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

#42. Is there anything more enlightened, more intelligent, more intellectual than laughter?

Marty Rubin

#43. Although it does help if your intelligence force is also intelligent.

John Flanagan

#44. Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an "intelligence explosion" as super-intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.

Peter Singer

#45. Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

Rajneesh

#46. Dicky was intelligent but he ended up selling tea because he was socially retarded.

Johnny B. Truant

#47. Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#48. This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

Robert Jarvik

#49. 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

#50. Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#51. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

William Eckhardt

#52. With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence.

Marcel Proust

#53. It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

#54. I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.

Susan Sontag

#55. The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

James Jeans

#56. Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#57. Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught you to light icon lamps, you'd do it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#58. You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy De Maupassant

#59. It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

#60. No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God.

George Carlin

#61. Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Huxley

#62. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.

Marty Rubin

#63. It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

Marty Rubin

#64. The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

William A. Dembski

#65. The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products.

Guy Kawasaki

#66. There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

#67. Andrei Yefimych is extremely fond of intelligence and honesty, but he lacks character and faith in his right to organize an intelligent and honest life around him.

Anton Chekhov

#68. To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

Zhuge Liang

#69. At the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force."
"An intelligent force?" said Will.
"Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

John Flanagan

#70. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#71. Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#72. The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

#73. Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

Stephen King

#74. Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#75. We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

Chris Matakas

#76. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Criss Jami

#77. A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

Ray Kurzweil

#78. If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.

Frederick Lenz

#79. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.

Debasish Mridha

#80. Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Mignon McLaughlin

#81. I don't know if I am an intelligent man or not, but I know one thing for sure; if my portion of intelligence was a bit larger, my personality would certainly collapse under its weight!

Fereidoon Yazdi

#82. Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#83. It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love.

Debasish Mridha

#84. The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#85. One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.

George Hammond

#86. Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

F.K. Preston

#87. No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Edna Ferber

#88. Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

Jaggi Vasudev

#89. Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Maya Angelou

#90. The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#91. There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

#92. An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#93. Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

Manoj Vaz

#94. [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Harold Urey

#95. Intelligence is overrated by any species that has it, and that's provable by the fact that all intelligent species are outlived by a factor of a hundred to one, if not a thousand to one, by nonintelligent species, who don't have the brains or perversity to destroy themselves or their environments.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#96. Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Christopher Isherwood

#97. But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Wilkie Collins

#98. I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy

#99. Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Salman Rushdie

#100. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

James Buchanan