Intelligence Quotes · Page 95

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

Some people are in your life for a reason and others are there for a season.

— Enock Maregesi

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

— Victor Hugo

“Wisdom is the distance between intelligence and stupidity.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

— Erwin Schrodinger

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

— Larry McMurtry

Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

— Frank Zappa

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

— Rufus Wainwright

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

— Alan Sugar

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

— Adam Schiff

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 -…

— John O. Brennan

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and…

— William Hazlitt

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

— Kerry Washington

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”

— Maurice Duffy

“I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed…

— Socrates

“Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in…

— Awdhesh Singh

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,…

— Ray Bradbury

If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all?…

— Rajneesh

Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of…

— Anatol Rapoport

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.…

— Adam Zagajewski

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of…

— William Hazlitt

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…

— Walter Pater

“Treason never prospers. What's the reason? Why, if it prosper, None dare call it treason.”

— John Harington

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

— Steve Polyak

“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.”

— Ashim Shanker

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

— Charles M. Schwab

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

— Adam Grant

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

— Tim Allen

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

— Anna Held

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

— Pierre Laval

There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.

— Michio Kaku

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

— Anonymous

The craving of the mind is the craving of intelligence

— Anonymous

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

— Aeschylus

“Just smart enough to be dangerous, it turned out, wasn’t really very smart at all.”

— Rachel Vincent

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

— Seneca the Younger

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

— Bruce Lee