Intelligence Quotes · Page 104

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

— Honore de Balzac

If you want to to be a smart cricketer, you have to play according to the situation.

— Hardik Pandya

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

— Mason Cooley

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

— Nathan Lane

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

— Woody Allen

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent…

— Margaret Fuller

I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

— Kris Carr

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try…

— Deepak Chopra

“To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.”

— Sun Tzu

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we…

— William Crashaw

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they…

— Peter Senge

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will…

— Epicurus

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals…

— Clyde Tombaugh

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But…

— Mark Forsyth

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was…

— Rick Perlstein

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at…

— Jerome Frank

I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's…

— Adrian Pasdar

Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another…

— Joe Gebbia

If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that…

— Wade Davis

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

— Albert Einstein

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

— Dan Wells

“A world full of geniuses would have significant problems.”

— Haruki Murakami

“God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.”

— Jim George

The one mind is all intelligence,all wisdom,and all perfection,and it is everything and everywhere

— Sitara Devi

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

— Jonathan Ive

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

— David Brooks

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”

— Irène Némirovsky

The only difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits.

— Babloo

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

— Zinedine Zidane

“His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.”

— Neal Shusterman

“I would do it myself, but my intelligence is out of repair. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.

— Karl A. Menninger