Top 100 Quotes About Intelligence
#1. Research has found that interviews are less predictive of job performance than work samples, job-knowledge tests, and peer ratings of past job performance. Even a simple intelligence test is substantially more predictive than an interview.
Chip Heath
#2. At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.
Deepak Chopra
#4. Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.
Rod Stryker
#5. I loved Monty Python for the wordplay
this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.
George Saunders
#6. Not branded dresses, expensive perfumes, studded sandals, glamorous accessories, the true beauty of a woman is her smile, willpower, confidence, intelligence and her ability to survive and rule with pride in a man's world.
Happy Woman's Day !
Harshada Pathare
#7. I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.
Bill Frist
#8. You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
Bryan Fuller
#9. That I am in direct mind-to-mind touch with extraterrestrial intelligence systems has been obvious to me for some time, but what this means is not in any way obvious.
Philip K. Dick
#10. The next aspect of the mystical feeling is even more difficult to assimilate into our ordinary practical intelligence. It is the overwhelming sense that everything that happens - everything that I or anybody else has ever done - is part of a harmonious design and that there is no error at all.
Alan W. Watts
#11. It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#12. There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H.L. Mencken
#13. Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#14. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.
Chris Priestley
#15. Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Osho
#16. You're the same yet everyone speaks so differently about you. It's the reflection of their own intelligence and maturity.
Sarvesh Jain
#17. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
Andre Maurois
#18. If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
Nirmala Srivastava
#19. I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
Marissa Mayer
#20. Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
Charles Brent
#21. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.
Alexander Stepanov
#22. Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
Frank Rich
#23. I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#24. There is a vast intelligence running this world, and everything is in order; nothing is missing
John Frederick Demartini
#25. I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.
Michael Longley
#26. He was a longtime street thug who had just enough ruthlessness to rise to legitimate businesses and not quite enough intelligence to leave his dark life behind him. Aptly suited as a banker.
Brian McClellan
#27. By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.
Horst Rechelbacher
#28. The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
#29. The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.
Susan Sontag
#30. Active acceptance of God's will: to question with one's mind, to understand with one's intelligence, and to submit with one's heart.
Tariq Ramadan
#31. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.
Muriel Spark
#33. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.
Laurie R. King
#34. We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.
Charles Dance
#35. Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#36. There is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.
Sam Harris
#37. The question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#38. Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.
J.R. Rim
#39. I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Ray Kurzweil
#40. The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.
Roger L'Estrange
#41. Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.
Thiruman Archunan
#42. People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Emma Goldman
#43. In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
Ovid
#44. Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.
Carl Sagan
#45. Intelligence is only as good as the consumer's ability to believe and utilize it.
Antonio J. Mendez
#46. For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.
Sheryl WuDunn
#47. It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
John Le Carre
#48. See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man! and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick!
Hermann Hesse
#49. Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun
#50. 2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man - criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man - to rule by force instead of by intelligence.
Henry Ford
#51. Language is a function not only of neurons, not only of "I," but of the meeting of cell and cosmos: the brash Caw of a disembodied intelligence at large in the universe, perhaps even the "voice" of primordial matter. You can hear it in wild turkeys at dawn.
Richard Grossinger
#52. Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.
Stanislav Grof
#53. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Alfred North Whitehead
#54. The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.
Annie Jacobsen
#55. Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.
Ron Greenwood
#57. I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
Jim Ramstad
#58. The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.
Kersey Graves
#59. We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity.
Joseph Goldstein
#60. Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Alexis Carrel
#61. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.
Stephen Mansfield
#62. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.
Nancy Kline
#63. It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.
David Caruso
#64. There are marvelous utilities, infinite good and unspeakable beauties in the great cosmic intelligence, the unseen world, ready for our use and enjoyment. If we only had sufficient faith to believe they were there we could draw them to ourselves.
Orison Swett Marden
#65. Asana has two facets, pose and repose. Pose is the artistic assumption of a position. 'Reposing in the pose' means finding the perfection of a pose and maintaining it, reflecting in it with penetration of the intelligence and with dedication.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#66. He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
Rumi
#67. I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me ... I am afraid of everything
Rickson Gracie
#68. The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.
Patrick Lencioni
#69. Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
Frank Carlucci
#70. I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
James Madison
#71. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
#72. Mrs. Bevins smiled. "Okay. I'll cop. I think every teacher sees this sometimes. It's not simply intelligence or talent. It's a nobility of spirit. A quality which could make him great at whatever he wanted to do." We
Lucia Berlin
#73. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
James Rollins
#74. Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
Riccardo Tisci
#75. According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.
Steven Pinker
#76. I do not believe in writing down to children but rather up to their intelligence.
Elle Alexander
#77. I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
#78. The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
#80. 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
#81. Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.
Robin Sharma
#82. The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.
Leslie Stephen
#83. The motivation for adding such intelligence to properties is to enable rich functionality directly from declarative markup.
Anonymous
#84. People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney
#86. Snarky should never be confused with clever ...
(Snarky just showcases immaturity and a need to make other feel small in order to make oneself feel better. Clever shows wit, intelligence and the gift of play on words. Hurtful is as hurtful does and its just wrong.)
Marianne Morea
#87. For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.
Christopher Smart
#88. The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.
Brendan Coyle
#89. If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao-Tzu
#90. Our head is designed to develop our intelligence, to devote ourselves to self- education, self -improvement and to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us
Sunday Adelaja
#91. Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.
Carl Sagan
#92. Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.
Louis Auguste Blanqui
#93. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.
Daniel Kahneman
#94. I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
Brad Delson
#95. Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
Charles Stross
#96. What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.
Kevin Allen
#97. If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
Peter Singer
#98. [T]here is a vast difference in the attitude of a man with a gun in his hand and that of one without a gun in his hand. When a man does not have a gun in his hand, or a woman for the matter, he or she tries harder to use his or her mind, sense of compassion, and intelligence to work out a solution.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#99. How can two living entities possessing intelligence and judgement ever be tied together for a lifetime?
R.K. Narayan
#100. Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.
Frederick Lenz
