An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. John Steinbeck
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. Marilyn vos Savant
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. Ellen DeGeneres
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. Grover Cleveland
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. Alvin Toffler
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. Laurence J. Peter
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. J. K. Rowling
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. Margaret J. Wheatley
George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. Rush Limbaugh
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. Washington Irving
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. Andrew Jackson