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Quotes About Intelligence

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
~ Yuri Milner
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
~ Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.
~ John Cheever
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
~ Tony Goldwyn
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
~ Margaret Halsey
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).
~ Laurence Silberman
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!
~ John L. Casti
From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.
~ Philip Johnson
The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.
~ Tobe Hooper
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
~ Tucker Carlson
Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.
~ Rajneesh
Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
~ Barney Frank
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.
~ Julia Quinn
Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
~ John Dewey
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
~ Joseph Joubert
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
~ Barbara Walters
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.
~ Joseph Cook