Intelligence Quotes

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

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

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

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.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Action is movement with intelligence

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.