I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving…

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

— Jacques Deval

“Before we end this subsection, there is one more thing that we should emphasize, which is that an artificial intelligence need not much resemble…

— Nick Bostrom

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

— Anonymous

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus,…

— Hanna Rosin

“Intelligence requires first the gift of curiosity.  Without curiosity, who would ask questions?  Second, intelligence is the ability to synthesize.  Facts alone signify little. …

— Ki Longfellow

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

— Toni Morrison

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

— Marcel Proust

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“Buffett is known for thinking carefully when those around him lose their heads. “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ,” he has said. “Once…

— Susan Cain

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for…

— Guy de Maupassant

“In some cases the intelligence community could subsidize commercial and academic sources to ensure specialized or additional expertise for surge situations. The key challenge…

— Bruce D. Berkowitz

Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they…

— George Soros