Top 466 Intelligence Quotes

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Letitia Baldrige

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Louisa Hall

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

Louis Dudek

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Ethel Waters

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Eckhart Tolle

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Bob Graham

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Piet Mondrian

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Karl A. Menninger

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

Mother Angelica

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