Intelligence Quotes - page 3

The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. (Karl Menninger)
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. View quote
Pythagoras
Chan's heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it. View quote
Lin Carter
The intelligence of the universe is social. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. View quote
Susan Sontag
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. View quote
Simone Weil
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her. View quote
David Ogilvy
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The universe is an intelligence test. View quote
Timothy Leary
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. (Alice Walker)
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. View quote
Morarji Desai
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. View quote
Barbara Walters
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. View quote
Richard Bach
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. View quote
Konrad Adenauer
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. (Linus Torvalds)
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. View quote
William F. Buckley
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. View quote
William F. Buckley
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. View quote
Edward de Bono
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. View quote
H. L. Mencken