Intelligence Quotes

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Carl Levin

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Andrea Dworkin

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!

Friedrich Nietzsche

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

Charles F. Bass

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

Prince Andrew

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Jerry Cantrell

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Diogenes

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert

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.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce