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Quotes About Intelligence

I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.
~ Kelly Oxford
Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.
~ Esther Hicks
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
~ Bertrand Russell
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
~ Neal Shusterman
There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.
~ John C. Dvorak
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
~ Albert Camus
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.
~ Bassem Youssef
I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.
~ Matthew Davis
Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.
~ Thomas Lansing Masson
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
~ Robert Cormier
This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.
~ Ray McGovern
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
~ John Donne
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
~ James Whistler
As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.
~ Paula Broadwell
When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
~ Paul Frank Baer
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
~ Ernst Mach
Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.
~ Patrick Joseph McGovern
Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.
~ Tara Brach
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
~ Cesare Pavese