616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“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

“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.”— Jim Lehrer

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

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

“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”— Henry Adams

“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.”— Joseph Pulitzer

“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”— Laurence J. Peter

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

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

“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”— Diogenes

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”— Thomas a Kempis

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

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

“Intelligence is not a science.”— Frank Carlucci

“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.”— Ernest Newman

“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