632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence


There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
James Lovelock

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Roberto Cavalli

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
Dick Cheney

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
Daniel Goleman

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Lewis Thomas

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
Nicolas Cage

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
John Sununu

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
John Ciardi

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.
Robert Mueller

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
George Saunders

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
King Abdullah II

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Titus Livius