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Quotes About Intelligence

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
~ Marshall McLuhan
There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.
~ Tim Cook
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
~ Mary C. Ames
The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
~ Peter James
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
~ Tom Robbins
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
~ George Orwell
Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
~ Rajneesh
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
~ Mortimer Adler
There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
~ Auguste Rodin
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
~ Piero Scaruffi
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
~ Francesco Clemente
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
~ Blanche Lincoln
Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.
~ Larry Page
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
~ Aldrich Ames
That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.
~ Daniel D. Palmer
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
~ Henri Bergson
[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick
~ Ron Dellums
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.
~ Edward Norton
Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.
~ Chris Cunningham
As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
~ H. L. Mencken