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Quotes About Intelligence

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
~ Marianne Williamson
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
~ James Clavell
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
~ Zoe Kazan
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
~ Isaac Newton
Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
~ Stefan Emunds
There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.
~ Saul Bellow
Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
~ George Sand
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
~ Snob corrupted.
Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.
~ Travis Luedke
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
~ Sir James Jeans
How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.
~ Michael Scheuer
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
~ Walter Bradford Cannon
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
~ Isaac Asimov
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
~ Denise Levertov
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
~ Agnes Repplier
Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.
~ Jean Craighead George