Intelligence Sayings & Quotes
These intelligence sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.'Mediocrity' doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. - Ayn Rand
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. - Henri-Louis Bergson
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Butler Leacock
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self. - Dr. Marcus Bach
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. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form. - Albert Einstein
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool. - Dale Carnegie
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. - Henri-Louis Bergson
Youth thinks intelligence a substitute for experience, and age thinks experience a substitute for intelligence. - Lyman L. Bryson
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. - Richard David Bach
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. - Henry Brooks Adams