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Quotes About Intelligence

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?
~ Michael Denton
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
~ Jim Parsons
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
~ Judith Crist
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
~ Edith Piaf
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
~ Alfred de Musset
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
~ Elsa Maxwell
Looks fade. Brains don't.
~ Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
~ Paul Watson
Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.
~ David Corn
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.
~ Hans Asperger
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
~ Vernor Vinge
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
~ James Randi
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
~ Daniel Goleman
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
~ Kim Stanley
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
~ George Scialabba
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Swami Nithyananda
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
~ Elizabeth Zimmermann
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
~ Friedrich Schiller
If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?
~ Jack Norris
Intelligence is enormously sexy.
~ Frank Langella
Anyone can drink beer, but it takes intelligence to enjoy beer.
~ Stephen Beaumont
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
~ Tibor Kalman
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
~ Roland Barthes, Mythologies
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
~ Booker T. Washington