Intelligence Quotes

Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. (Le ciel c'est l'autre)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Humor is complete intelligence.

~ Dick Cavette

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

~ Pearl Zhu

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A pretty face and a beautiful body can capture my attention, But only a beautiful and creative mind can hold it

~ Sam Eriakha

An elementary school student asked me the NOT “politically correct” question, “Is an idiot smarter than a moron?” I had to Google it because I was afraid to respond in today’s PC society and didn’t want to offend him, his parents, or anyone else. Here’s what I found.Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot.Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test. An IQ between: 00-25 = Idiot 26-50 = Imbecile 51-70 = MoronExplaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included.When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots!

~ Ray Palla

Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatened by a new type of solution that requires new expertise. A smart generalist doesn't have bias, so is free to survey the wide range of solutions and gravitate to the best one.

~ Eric Schmidt

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

An intelligent organization is not about the “cleverness” of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.

~ Pearl Zhu

This was where she discovered that intelligence, this wonderful gift, grows in silence, not in noise. It was here too that she learnt that a human mind, a truly human mind, is nurtured over time, with hard work and discipline.

~ Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

How old you are has nothing to do with how wise, smart, or mature you've actually become.

~ Maria Swifmess

Life is full of challenges, seen and unseen, so to look and feel great, you must hold your head up each day and project your inner confidence.

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

Are you eating to live or are you eating to die? Food is not just for nourishment. Food is for information, it is for intelligence. It is for wisdom, but more so it is to create clarity within your self.

~ Angie Karan

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Independence can neither be created nor destroyed just like energy! It can only be transferred from a fearless, resilient, intelligent & visionary form to another, regardless of what gender you are born with. It's the energy that seeks to free your mind.

~ Vishwanath S J

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions—say 10 percent—of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.

~ Carl Sagan

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

~ Sophocles

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

She always did feel sharp for things that was done wrong to her. I think she felt hurts more, say, than me. It's cause she's smarter; she got more person to hurt.

~ Joann Greenberg

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but Philip was the real thing: a shining, artistic polymath with an intelligence that came at you like a pair of headlights and enveloped you from the moment he grabbed your hand, put a huge arm round your neck and shoved a cheek against yours; or if the mood took him, hugged you to him like a big, pudgy schoolboy, then stood and beamed at you while he took stock of the effect. (About Philip Seymour Hoffman)

~ John Le Carré

Higher intelligence is not necessarily something you’re born with or genetically predisposed toward. In fact, most instances of above-the-ordinary intelligences are usually acquired thru superior learning techniques ... Reading about the greatest minds in history, including recent history, more often than not reveals the individuals concerned (or people close to them) employed specific learning methods.

~ James Morcan

Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.

~ James C. Dobson

I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

~ Kelly Thompson

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

~ Pearl Zhu

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life is a solvent. Be someone who dispels or weakens attitudes and situations. Have assets in excess to protect your liabilities. Solving it by shutting away differences in intelligence means you fail at the ultimate test. How we recognize words, how one uses words to communicate, and the ability to receive and contemplate outcomes. This is a feature (as far as we know) unique to our sort of intelligence.

~ James Emlund

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

~ Isaac Asimov

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

~ Raheel Farooq

Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had only one question. Can a machine converse with a human with enough facility that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine? I always thought this was cruel--the test depends entirely upon a human judge and human feelings, whether the machine feels intelligent to the observer. It privileges the observer, the human, to a crippling degree. It seeks only believably human responses. It wants perfect mimicry, not a new thing. It's a mirror in which men wish only to see themselves.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence.

~ Elena Ferrante

Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the intellectual plane, it was clear that his desire was, by this prolonged tickling, to bring me to an orgasm of the mind.

~ Robertson Davies

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

~ Osho

Your baby is smarter than you think.

~ Josh Malerman

Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The remark has worldwide application. But the lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking.

~ Carl Sagan

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

~ Christopher Langan

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.

~ Arthur C. Clarke