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Quotes About Intelligence

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
~ Victor Hugo
'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.
~ Kathy Acker
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
~ John Trudell
The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.
~ David J. Schwartz
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
~ Carl Sagan
Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.
~ Jeremy Paxman
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
~ H. L. Mencken
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
~ Lawrence Bossidy
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.
~ Edward Snowden
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
~ Edmund Wilson
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
~ Patrick Stump
I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.
~ Rickson Gracie
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
~ Helen Vendler
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
~ Aesop
If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
~ Warren Buffett
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
~ David M. Shoup
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
~ Oscar Wilde