Intelligence Quote by Ted Chiang

“I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long…

— Marcel Proust

“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune”

— Jo Nesbø

“Man can never eliminate the necessity of using his own intelligence, regardless of how cleverly he tries!”      I”

— Raymond M. Smullyan

“Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world”

— Arkady Strugatsky

“I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he…

— Johann Rudolf Wolf

“World is so beautiful when you look beyond your self-interest. Success and self do not work together. Rise up the ordinary.”

— Mayur Ramgir

“A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.”

— John Gray

“Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.”

— Patrick M. Garry

“Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.”

— Beatrice Sparks

“I think intelligence is something you have to work for … it isn’t just given to you….”

— Carol S. Dweck

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“There are no intelligent people, only intelligent actions carried out by certain people in contexts that offer the opportunity for such action to take…

— Lene Tanggaard