Intelligence Quotes

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Pierce

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Dante Alighieri

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Barbara Walters

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence

Lewis Mumford

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

Bill Gates

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence

Jean Anouilh

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Lao Tzu

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Albert Edward Wiggam

Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Kitty O\'Neill Collins

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

James Cone

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Brooks Adams

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended

Alfred North Whitehead

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses

Quentin Crisp

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

Charleszetta Waddles

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

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