Quotes About Intelligence

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

There is a vast intelligence running this world, and everything is in order; nothing is missing

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.