Intelligence Quotes · Page 188

From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same thing.

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

— Joseph Joubert

“Intelligence will take you to the mountaintop; wisdom will take you to the stars.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

— David Frum

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

— Emile M. Cioran

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

— J. K. Rowling

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

— Kathleen Winsor

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.”

— Paul Hoffman

We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

— Louis B. Rosenberg

...Intelligence is something you have to earn...Wisdom though, is something you have to fail for and earn…

— Rizzi Vicci

Think Big... Think Positive... Think Smart... Think Beautiful... Think Great... I know, that is too much for u, so here is a…

— Janik Seshan

“Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence.”

— Carl Sagan

“Human intelligence is a function of man’s evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of…

— Colin Wilson

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as…

— Aleister Crowley

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

— Victor Hugo

That machines will surpass us in intelligence is inevitable. What it means is unknowable. Will they be sentient? What will they care…

— Garry Kasparov

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

— Cathy O'Neil

Never too stupid. You don't have to be a genius to ask the right questions.

— Anonymous

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

— Al Seckel

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Smart people don't carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.

— Kishore Bansal

Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

— Valerie Plame

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

— Bill Joy

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

— Harriet Martineau

The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

— Anonymous

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

— Christopher Columbus

“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Never let someone else be the reason for your smile. Your smile belongs to you.

— Lee Levy

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

— Lao Tzu

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

— Bertrand Russell

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

— Warren Buffett