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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy on intelligence

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith on intelligence

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie on intelligence

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on intelligence

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story on intelligence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert Lawrence on intelligence

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht on intelligence

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell on intelligence

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett on intelligence

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana on intelligence

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf on intelligence

Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno on intelligence

The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary on intelligence

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter on intelligence

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 on intelligence

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz on intelligence

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant on intelligence

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 on intelligence

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 on intelligence

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 on intelligence