Intelligence Quotes · Page 167

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

— Karl A. Menninger

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

— Walter Isaacson

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

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

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Zinedine Zidane

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

— Babloo

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we…

— Philip Johnson

Maybe the reason why I haven't found who I've been searching for is because I know that I've already found her. It's…

— Anonymous

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much…

— Tom Robbins

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life…

— Lee Jameson

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

— Richard Bach

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go…

— Charles Saatchi

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Creative intelligences, being evolved arrived late in the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.”

— Richard Dawkins

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because…

— Daniel Goleman

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the…

— Jacques Maritain

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that…

— Frank Carlucci

The documents I have declassified reveal that there are folks in the Biden - or, the Obama-Biden administration, senior national security folks…

— John Ratcliffe

I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But…

— Barry Hannah

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would…

— Anonymous

I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people…

— J. Robbins

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Alfred Bester

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

— Woody Allen

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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 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

“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

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

— Dan Wells

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

— Malcolm Forbes