632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence


I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
Bruce Springsteen

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer

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

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Alan Kay

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
Brian Eno

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

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Bryant H. McGill

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGill

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
Bryant H. McGill

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Tiger Woods

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Claude Chabrol