Intelligence Quotes · Page 176

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

— Dorothy Dunnett

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is no need for intelligence of few man if everybody else is mad.”

— Ömer Seyfettin

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

— Joe Theismann

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

— Bill James

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

— James Clapper

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

— Albert J. Nock

I love it you smile. But I have love it more when I'm the reason behind your smile.

— Anonymous

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it…

— Thierry Henry

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is…

— Harold Urey

There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.

— Paul Allen

“Your personality is a result of your preferences, such as your inclination to introversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can’t be…

— Travis Bradberry

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.…

— Leo Tolstoy

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking…

— Robert Anton Wilson

To be smart means you know a lot of things. To be wise means you know what to do with you know.…

— Richard Stidham

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied,…

— Bertrand Russell

“But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance…

— Francine Prose

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have…

— H. L. Mencken

“I think you are talented and passionate, Isabella. More than you think and less than you expect. But there are a lot…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If somebody does a task really badly, then that's better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell…

— Alex Horne

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to…

— Oscar Wilde

“He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question…

— Neal Stephenson

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a…

— Oren Etzioni

We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

— Bob Beckel

“Perceptive. She’s as smart as she is beautiful. And probably doesn’t think she’s either one.”

— M. Leighton

Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

— Charles Bukowski

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

— Henry David Thoreau

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

— Anonymous

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

— Richard Morris

“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

— Margaret Millar

Greatness is the reward for genius... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.

— Siddharth Katragadda

“He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.”

— George Orwell

“Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.”

— Mercedes Lackey

I changed myself for a reason and now I don't have that reason.

— Kurrupted Data

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

— Ken Robinson

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

— Franz Grillparzer

There's no reason to go back in the ring and prove anything.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin