Intelligence Quotes
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
William John Locke
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
Michael Hayden
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I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
Grace Dell Nichols
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I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn
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What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
Mickey Drexler
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Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.
Alice Borchardt
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If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both in the literal sense and with regard to our intelligence services. He shouldn't have access to these briefings.
Evan McMullin
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
Allegra Goodman
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
Dan Barker
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
Marcel Proust
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The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.
Elena Ferrante
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
Ashok K. Banker
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I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
Ernest Holmes
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
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A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
Denise Levertov
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
Adolf Hitler
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Phaedrus
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Tiger Woods