Concept Quote by Steven Pinker

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

— Larry Niven

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

— William James

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise…

— Dalai Lama

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

— Henry A. Kissinger

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

— Edgar Degas

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

— Alexis Carrel

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

— Linus Torvalds

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Dedicate yourself. Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for.

— Anonymous

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

— G. H. Hardy

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

— Vivienne Westwood

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb