Quotes about Intelligence
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
— Albert Einstein
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
— Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
— Victor Hugo
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
— JM Coetzee
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
— Aesop
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
— Helen Keller
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
— Etienne Gilson
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.
— Barack Obama
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
— E Stanley Jones
Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.
— Deepak Chopra
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
— Joseph Heller