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Quotes About Intelligence

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn't…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.
~ Edward Snowden
If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.
~ Martha Raddatz
Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.
~ Saul Gorn
There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.
~ Robert J. Shiller
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
~ Oscar Wilde
I think human intelligence is the only one that will actually tell you intent.
~ Valerie Plame
There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].
~ John le Carre
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.
~ H. L. Mencken
The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.
~ George W. Bush
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
~ Robert Graves
I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.
~ Edward Snowden
What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.
~ Sheryl WuDunn
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
~ Scott Adams
If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.
~ Rush Limbaugh
With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.
~ Paul G. Hoffman