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Quotes About Intelligence

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
~ G.H. Hardy
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
~ Simone Weil
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
~ Immanuel Kant
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
~ Edward de Bono
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
~ Garrison Keillor
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
~ Ken Burns
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
~ George Soros
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
~ Will Tuttle
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
~ Steve Wozniak
I hate it when girls act stupid 'cause they think it's cute. Intelligence is sexy.
~ Niall Horan
I've always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.
~ Zendaya
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~ Robert J. Shiller
The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.
~ Roger Penrose
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
~ Voltaire
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
~ Alice Walker
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.
~ Nick Bostrom
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.
~ Lewis Terman
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
~ Moliere
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
~ David Fincher
Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored.
~ Yoweri Museveni