Intelligence Quotes

• What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point, I had sort of committed myself to not committing. I didn't want to have to raise a husband, but he was so sophisticated and so funny.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Husband
  • Humor
  • Intrigued

• That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Together
  • Party
  • Hobbits

• At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • People
  • Enough
  • inspirational

• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Humanity
  • Genius
  • Intelligence

• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Ghost
  • Familiar
  • Gulls

• Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

  

  Alvin Plantinga
  • Wisdom
  • Intelligence
  • Estimates

• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Chance
  • Fool

• It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Death
  • Child
  • Regard

• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  

  David W. Orr
  • Humility
  • Celebration
  • Obligation

• Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Intelligence
  • Laws
  • Libertines

• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Intelligence
  • Artificial
  • Super-duper

• If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • Wisdom

• Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

  

  Judy Woodruff
  • Human
  • Intelligence
  • Machines

• Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Education
  • Intelligence
  • Proper

• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  

  Plotinus
  • Reality
  • Entire
  • Inbound

• ...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Character
  • Community
  • Produce

• I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Waiting

• I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • World
  • Intelligence
  • Ruled

• I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Universe
  • Intelligent
  • Heard

• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Talking
  • Someone
  • Combination

• Knowledge is not intelligence.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Knowledge
  • Intelligence

• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Helping
  • Mediocrity
  • Diligence

• This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Intelligence

• Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

  

  Wayne Teasdale
  • Kindness
  • Intelligence

1

...

10

11

12

13

14

...

20

previous

next