No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
Stephen Jay GouldAction is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon HillI've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Liz HurleyChess is a game of war and strategy, and a great chess player would make a great intelligence officer.
Bobby FischerArtificial Intelligence isn't a patch on Natural Stupidity.
AnonymousPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinOur bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin TofflerI'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars
Michael CaineThere 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 EddyChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyEverything 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 DyerA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonAn intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence PeterLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul BellowThe phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerTruly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik TikkanenWhat a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund FreudMan is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous HuxleyThe unfolding of intelligence and complexity could still be near its cosmic beginnings.
Sir Martin ReesThe intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl LevinIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C ClarkeTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael JordanNature 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 SchopenhauerMy darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
Helen KellerAs elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerAdvertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler LeacockIn the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert HooverI don't seem to use my intelligence intelligently.
Virginia Wade I'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 AdamsYou saw the report of the US intelligence. They said clearly that the Iranian people were on the just path.
Mahmoud AhmadinejadThe 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 FitzgeraldLook, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. [Day of the Daleks]
Doctor WhoJoy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
Helen KellerWhat I am is the new dream girl - one who has both body and intelligence
Sybil DanningIf 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 AustenDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsEvolution 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 BachNeither 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 MozartKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuBecause 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 McGrathI 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 GatesMan becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frederic AmielProducing 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 CraterMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho MarxDemocracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
Robert HutchinsNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsClear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
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