Intelligence Quotes

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate

Henri Bergson

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Peter

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Tao Te Ching

Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

Joseph Robinette

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies...our own innate intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

Deepak Chopra

The infinite intelligence in your subconscious can give you access to wonderful new kinds of knowledge.

Joseph Murphy

Teachers preach the superiority of the intelligence; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

Julien Benda

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emil Cioran