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Edgar Degas

There is no such [thing] as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Don Herold

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E. B. White

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

James Whistler

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Emerson M. Pugh

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Dolly Parton

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Aldous Huxley

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Joel Hildebrand

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Charles Caleb Colton

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Edgar Degas

There is no such [thing] as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Niall MacDermot

'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms.

Stobaeus

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

H.L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Moralia

Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Black Elk

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

Isadora Duncan

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Julius Henry Marx

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Gallagher

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

Albert Camus

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

Jacques Maritain

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Alan J. Perlis

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

Stephen William Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Bertrand Russell

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Leonardo DaVinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Bill Bulko

Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Sir Winston Churchill

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.

Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Philo Vance

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul

James Dent

Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out.

Sloan Wilson

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Vernon A. Walters

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Dominique Bouhours

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Ambrose Bierce

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Maya Angelou

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

Lisa Alther

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Ellen Terry

Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Baslo

Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Sophy Burnham

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F Scott

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Thomas Alva Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doin

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Artificial Intelligence

Oxymoron - Military Intelligence

I'm too smart to let my intelligence go to my head.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

A living example of Artificial Intelligence.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

A closed mind gathers no intelligence

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

We will never have great leaders as long as we mistake education for intelligence, ambition for ability, and lack of transgression for integrity!

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we