616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.” — Richard Armitage

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“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.” — William Shenstone

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“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.” — Konrad Adenauer

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“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.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.” — E. Stanley Jones

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“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” — Grover Cleveland

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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.” — Saint Augustine

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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow

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“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” — Emanuel Swedenborg

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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.” — Timothy Leary

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“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.” — James Lovelock

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“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” — Sean Parker

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“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.” — Alan Moore

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“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.” — Catherine Deneuve

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“I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.” — Nicole Appleton

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“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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“I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.” — Kristin Hersh

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“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.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.” — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.” — Ian Mcewan

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“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.” — Shirley Hazzard

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“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.” — Alan Alda

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