Intelligence Quotes

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

~ Eckhart Tolle

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

~ Steve Wozniak

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

~ Linus Torvalds

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

~ Albert Einstein

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

~ Clyde Tombaugh

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

~ Auguste Rodin

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

~ Bertrand Russell

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

~ Alan Perlis

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

~ Louis Pasteur

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

~ Gracie Allen

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

~ Paul Watson

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

~ Donald Trump

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

~ Elvis Mitchell

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

~ John George Nicolay

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

~ George Tenet

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

~ Pratibha Patil

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

~ Albert Einstein

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

~ Charles Munch

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

~ Michael Merzenich

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

~ William Feather

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

~ Caitlin Kittredge

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

~ Sloan Wilson

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

~ January Jones