Intelligence Quotes

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No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose… — Cynthia Tucker
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. — James Russell Lowell
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline. — Pete Carril
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise. — Don Tapscott
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology… — Paul MacCready

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