Intelligence Quotes

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Muscle is good, but craft is better

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.