Quotes with intelligence

  • Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
  • My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
  • 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.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
  • Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
  • Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
  • Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
  • The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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  • Lao-Tzu Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
    ― Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    ― Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • S. Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    ― S. Leacock
     
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
    ― Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    ― Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
    ― William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Susan Sontag Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
    ― Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
    ― Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    ― Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Barbara Walters A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
    ― Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
    ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • T. S. Eliot A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
    ― T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    ― Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
    ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Napoleon Hill Action is the real measure of intelligence.
    ― Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bobby R. Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
    ― Bobby R. Inman
     
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    ― Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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