Intelligence - Quotes & Sayings

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Mark Twain

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Eckhart Tolle

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Steve Jobs

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

Donald Trump

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Samuel Goldwyn

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Maria Montessori

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

Maria Montessori

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J. K. Rowling

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Travis Bradberry

Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more.

Steve Mollenkopf

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

David Bowie

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Deepak Chopra

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Martin Seligman

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

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

e. e. cummings

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Carl Sagan

A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone.

Om Malik

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

Gray Scott

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

Maria Montessori

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.

John McCain

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Michelle Obama

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

Adam Grant

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Stephen Hawking

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.

Giorgio Armani

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

Giordano Bruno

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Sophocles

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

Howard Gardner

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

T. S. Eliot