Intelligence Quotes · Page 198

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by…

— Peter Breggin

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of…

— Colin Quinn

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

— Edward Zigler

“... Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but…

— George Eliot

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

— Geraldine Brooks

We are proactively training and upscaling thousands of people in key areas such as cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

— Pierre Nanterme

I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they…

— Diana Rigg

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

— Paolo Veronese

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect…

— Alan Garner

“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After…

— Alan W. Watts

I wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or…

— Immortal Technique

Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have…

— Nick Denton

“Reasoning is the fourth step of the SMART process after the information is analyzed. William Atkinson, in his 1909 book the Art…

— Brian Ledger

Hundreds a year are killed inspecting power lines, inspecting gas lines and cellphone towers. They fall. There are helicopter crashes. We can…

— Brian Krzanich

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture…

— Donald Trump

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole…

— Anonymous

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail…

— Stefan Zweig

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a…

— Eva Ibbotson

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

— Charles Sumner

Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone. They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our…

— Robert Musil

“The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they…

— Nathan Yocum

“Emotionally intelligent people trust their instincts and can identify how certain thoughts, feelings, people, and situations make them feel.”

— Susan C. Young

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…

— Henri Bergson

When it comes to Israel's security, our military and intelligence cooperation, that's off limits. That's protected. That's sacrosanct.

— Ben Rhodes

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center…

— John Bruton

Doubt helps your intelligence, sharpens it. Questioning makes you aware of many possibilities of which you may not have been aware before.

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I believe that the way someone speaks and acts tells their story. You can read a person from cover to cover upon…

— Anonymous

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

— Bill Watterson

“That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their…

— Cormac McCarthy

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at…

— George Sand

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

— Chris Argyris

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable…

— Anonymous

“The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."---Irrational Exuberance”

— Robert J. Shiller

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

— Abraham Lincoln

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and…

— James E. Faust