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Quotes About Intelligence

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.
~ Mitt Romney
Intelligence can be used to manipulate.
~ Kofi Annan
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
~ William Shakespeare
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
~ Christopher Hitchens
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
~ C. S. Lewis
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.
~ Stephen King
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
~ Jeff MacNelly
What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
~ Mirra Komarovsky
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.
~ Chris Colfer
In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.
~ John F. Kerry
If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
~ Tom Clancy
I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.
~ Rick Riordan
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
~ Peter Travers
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.
~ Michael Shermer
The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the election.
~ Donald Trump
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
~ Anthony Hecht
There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
~ Bryan Fuller
A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.
~ Rachel Vincent
When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.
~ Richard Kadrey
Messi or Cristiano - Speed? Cristiano. Shot? Cristiano. Dribbling? Messi. Intelligence? Messi. Talent? Messi. Winner is Messi!
~ Usain Bolt