Intelligence Quotes

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. (Thomas Szasz)
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. View quote
Henry Adams
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
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
The intelligence of the universe is social. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. View quote
Blaise Pascal
All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life. View quote
Vitruvius
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. View quote
Alan Perlis
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. View quote
Saul Bellow
Neither 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. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. View quote
Emil Cioran
Action is the real measure of intelligence. View quote
Napoleon Hill
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. (James Clavell)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. View quote
Groucho Marx
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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