Intelligence Quotes

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

[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.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

If you would take, you must first give.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

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.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.