Intelligence Quotes - page 2

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. (Willa Cather)
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin
Evolution 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 Bach
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Clifford D. Simak
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
James Joseph Sylvester
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. (Bertolt Brecht)
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
Don Tapscott