Intelligence Quotes · Page 208

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius…

— William James

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.

— Matt Ridley

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize…

— Dermot Davis

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

— Winston Churchill

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just…

— Stephen King

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

— Carlos Fuentes

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an…

— Caroline Myss

The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals,…

— Marvin Minsky

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work…

— Anais Nin

“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of…

— David Marusek

I first came into the radar of the U.S. intelligence when I received a call from my cousin Mahfouz. It was 1999.…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be…

— H. L. Mencken

“It takes consistent and focused practice to become emotionally intelligent. People who learn from their experiences have significantly higher emotional intelligence than…

— Shawn Kent Hayashi

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.

— Sally Kempton

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

— Neal A. Maxwell

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large…

— H. L. Mencken

“Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so…

— Sloan Wilson

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a…

— Marya Mannes

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to…

— Nirmala Srivastava

If you insult my intelligence or character, be prepared to be on the receiving end of the ultimate cold shoulder.

— Anonymous

“Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic…

— Christopher Paolini

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before,…

— J. M. Coetzee

Everyone has a story , & there's a reason for them being the way they're , be careful who you judge , you don't know them

— Spido

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

— Wyndham Lewis

Some of you are really smart. You know who you are. Some of you are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who…

— Anonymous

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full…

— Thomas Gainsborough

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes…

— Charlie Chaplin

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by…

— Gertrude Atherton

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

— Steve Fowler

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

— Frank Herbert

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire…

— May Sinclair

Intelligence doesnt just mean tracking down terrorists; it means finding out what is in peoples hearts and minds.

— Karen Armstrong

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

— Peter Adamson

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

— Friedrich Schiller

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time…

— Scott Adams

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

— Oren Etzioni