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Quotes About Intelligence

Everything intelligent is so boring.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.
~ David Livermore
The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.
~ Terry Winograd
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
~ John Ashcroft
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
~ Richard Bach
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
~ Thelma Ritter
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
~ Rodney Brooks
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
~ Marvin Minsky
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
~ Helen Keller
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
~ Roger Caras
That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
~ William Shakespeare
The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence
~ Holly Goldberg Sloan
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
~ Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
~ Nichelle Nichols
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
~ Douglas Hofstadter