632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence


The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
David Bailey

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Larry Ellison

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
Daymond John

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
William Hague

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
Sophia Bush

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas a Kempis

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
Betty Dodson

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White