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Quotes About Intelligence

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
~ Shirley Hazzard
I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.
~ Taylor Swift
People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
~ Rebecca Eaton
Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.
~ John Pierrakos
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
~ Denis Diderot
Questions are creative acts of intelligence.
~ Francis Kingdon Ward
I love John Madden, because he makes me feel smart.
~ Frank Caliendo
I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.
~ Marietta Holley
I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.
~ Russell Lynes
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
~ Robert Carlyle
Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.
~ Ashley Montagu
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
~ Aldous Huxley
I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.
~ Siegbert Tarrasch
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
~ Max Barry
These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.
~ Max Barry
it's much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can't spot the difference.
~ Max Barry
He tilted his head to one side. She would come to know this gesture well over the next two years: Gilly mentally ratcheting his intelligence down until he found a level he could share with her. "The ship isn't alive. It can't communicate with us." "But
~ Max Barry
the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.
~ Max Brooks
From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper.
~ Max Brooks
Communication implies intelligence, which implies an innate desire for peace.
~ Max Brooks
Cuando el general George Patton contraatacó al mariscal de campo Rommel durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se dice que en el fragor de la batalla Patton gritó: «¡Leí tu libro, Rommel! ¡Leí tu libro!». Patton había estudiado La infantería al ataque, el libro de Rommel. Conocía la estrategia del jefe alemán y planeó sus posiciones conforme a ella2. Nosotros también conocemos las tácticas del diablo.
~ Max Lucado
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
~ Maya Angelou