Quotes About Intelligence

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.