Intelligence is a highly valued trait in society, and throughout history, many great minds have had a lot to say about this coveted characteristic. Here are some notable intelligence quotes to inspire you:
Intelligence Quotes and Sayings
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Common sense is not so common.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. 'Can they be brought together?' This is a practical question. We must get down to it. 'I despise intelligence' really means: 'I cannot bear my doubts.'
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence - whether much that is glorious - whether all that is profound - does not spring from disease of thought - from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
belief is the death of intelligence.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
One thought fills immensity.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
The advancement of science and the diffusion of information is the best aliment to true liberty.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty - two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter - theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).
People are smarter than you might think.
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
People who boast about their IQ are losers.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?'.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing... after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Genius is independent of situation.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
Controversial as we all know, is often a euphemism for interesting and intelligent.
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well - informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.
What I learned on my own I still remember.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
I think a man's 'wordplay' can be so fucking sexy! I love a good mind fuck!
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.'
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Many much - learned men have no intelligence.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Eroticize intelligence.
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Why do I do anything? she says. I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty - five other guys - but the average of sixty - five other guys, certainly!
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
She has man's brain - a brain that a man should have were he much gifted - and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
Wit is educated insolence.
Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
If reason ruled the world would history even exist?
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the 'over' and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Intelligence is not a science.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.
Remember to be as smart as you are.
'Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy,' said my father as he watched the three beauties. 'But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?'
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
The barrier during self - improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble - that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
'Intelligence is not a competition,' she said. 'There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.'
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Is intelligence always good? I wonder. What if intelligence is wasted? What if intelligence leads to more loneliness rather than to fulfillment? What if instead of productivity and clarity, it generates pain, isolation, and regret?
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. (With analogy) we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. (With first principles) you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Man knows so much and does so little.
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion... Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.
There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it... or they think you have.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one's beliefs.
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.
Self-centeredness takes away the fragrance of common sense from an intelligent person and makes him dumb, deaf, stupid, and illogical.
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.
Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
You are just your intelligence.
I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.
Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.
Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.
It is never a good idea to do anything if you do not understand the process, asking questions does not represent ignorance, it means you want to become intelligent.
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.
It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
Having a sense of humor - both the ability to generate humor and to appreciate it - has repeatedly been found to correlate with measures of intelligence.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
The person who finds answers to old questions is intelligent, the person who finds new questions is curious, but the person who finds the answer to new questions is a visionary.
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
There's a difference between intellect and intelligence. Noise propagates the former, silence the later. Intellect is inherited, intelligence is inherent.
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.
Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.
Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue.
Great art is not about the skills but the creative intelligence.
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.
Logic becomes illogical at the point that it assumes that everything can be explained logically.
Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we really are.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Your baby is smarter than you think.
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.
To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action.
As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.
A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.
If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
If you constantly look stupid somewhere, you might be a genius but in the wrong place. Average minds fit in anywhere, It's intelligence that doesn't fit.
Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, - a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.
An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.
I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.
Muscle is good, but craft is better.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
Intelligent people can still get into some stupid-ass foolery.
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
Smart means knowing when to talk and when to shut up
Art has two dimensions. Creative skills and creative intelligence. When both come together, a masterpiece is created.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Confusion is a sign of intelligence; only fools are crystal clear.
Smart is knowing what is good for you. Intelligent is knowing how to get it.
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
It takes intelligence to recognize intelligence, or the lack of it.
Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution.
History made by smartness alone, is no more than caves of silicon.
A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!
Do not underestimate wisdom. It will overtake intelligence, power, and wealth.
The greatest minds in history were not those who had all the answers, but those who never stopped asking questions.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Stupid is assuming intelligence only because it doesn't understand what it's assuming in order to realize that it's not what it's assuming.
Even if people do not understand you, at least they do not possess the same ability as your bizarre uniqueness.
Using less time to produce more is intelligent, then why do intelligent people choose to multitask?
Intelligence abounds in the world, what is needed is more kindness, love, and compassion.
At the top of intelligence and at the edge of experience there is nothing else other than insanity.
The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.
A nuclear test is not a nuclear test. It is an intelligence test.
In a world full of clutter, intelligence is defined as our ability to distinguish between what we need and what we need to discard.
The greatest sign of intelligence is realizing that we're not.
Being smart is not knowing everything. Being smart is knowing where to find out and the will to do so.
Our mind works a bit like a search program in a computer.
A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost unemployable.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Most people are like pre-programmed robots, and unable to go off script for fear of bugging the programme and failing the programmers. All intelligence is art-making, that is, artificial.
Reason and emotion must both work together to create intelligent behavior, but emotion does most of the work.
True intelligence is knowing the meaning of life is love.
Human beings are the most intelligent species on this earth, but they are also the reason for the extinction of many species. What can we expect as human intelligence grows?
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
The boundary between stupidity and intelligence cannot be drawn with a straight-edged ruler. It is rather a no-man's land, a zone between two immense forces which sometimes are at war and sometimes drowsing through an armistice.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.
Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.
Intelligence is the ability to see the essence of things.
The surest sign of intelligence is constancy.
Intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns.
Intelligence is the ability to make good choices.
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