Intelligence Quotes
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
