Intelligence Quotes

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?

If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.

You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?

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

Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.

Humility is always proof of intelligence

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.