An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence PeterYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin TofflerThe unfolding of intelligence and complexity could still be near its cosmic beginnings.
Sir Martin ReesA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonAction is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon HillThe phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAs elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerChess is a game of war and strategy, and a great chess player would make a great intelligence officer.
Bobby FischerIn the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert HooverClear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas SzaszDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsI 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 GatesI'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars
Michael CaineI've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail AdamsNature 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.
Arthur SchopenhauerI don't seem to use my intelligence intelligently.
Virginia Wade I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Liz HurleyTruly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik TikkanenWhat I am is the new dream girl - one who has both body and intelligence
Sybil DanningChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerLook, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. [Day of the Daleks]
Doctor WhoNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsEverything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Dr Wayne DyerArtificial Intelligence isn't a patch on Natural Stupidity.
AnonymousMan becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frederic AmielThe war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
Richard ArmitageBecause every punter has to register full identity details to open an account with exchanges, and sign a declaration allowing the authorities access to that account, it is more likely that we are today seeing the results of this extra source of intelligence. [on scandals in betting]
J A McGrathLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseProducing machines capable of artificial thought was easy. Producing a machine capable of intelligence has proven elusive because there just isn't anything on which to model it.
Judge CraterIf any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
Jane AustenIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C ClarkePhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinNo rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
Stephen Jay GouldThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F Scott FitzgeraldMy darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
Helen KellerPeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre MauroisOnly 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.
Eugene WilsonMan is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous HuxleyKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuAdvertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler LeacockIf you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen SpecterDemocracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
Robert HutchinsEvolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Richard BachChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyWhat a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund FreudNeither 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThere is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have
Don HeroldTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael JordanThere is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error
Mary Baker EddyThe intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin
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