616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” — Susan Sontag

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“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” — Charles Kettering

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“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” — Daniel Goleman

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“I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” — James Whistler

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“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” — Tom Robbins

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“People are smarter than you might think.” — John Astin

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“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” — Don Herold

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“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.” — G. H. Hardy

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“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” — Steve Wozniak

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“Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.” — Irene Peter

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“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.” — Don Van Vliet

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“Remember to be as smart as you are.” — Judd Nelson

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“Intelligence is not a science.” — Frank Carlucci

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“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.” — Margaret Anderson

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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.” — Wayne Dyer

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“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.” — Malcolm X

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“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you p--n your intelligence to buy a drink.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” — John Keats

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“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.” — Abigail Adams

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“The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.” — Aldrich Ames

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“We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.” — Aldrich Ames

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