Intelligence Quotes

To put it in simple words, intelligence can be summed up as a collection of concepts that portray the wisdom of the mind. The ability to understand, learn, reason, plan and solve problems is what defines intelligence. The general facility of a human to acquire knowledge, adapt himself to his new environment, to comprehend, evaluate, judge and think original is what is broadly classified as intelligence. Trail down these famous intelligence quotations and sayings to find out what the opinion of some famous personalities are regarding this unique mental astuteness.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Greatness Growth Imagination
Ronald Reagan

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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Motivation Being Yourself Benefit Caution
Adolf Hitler

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Reason Thinking Work
Henry Ford

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Sadness Power Rule Corruption
Thomas Hobbes

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Old Age Proverbs Truth Wisdom
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Ability Change
Stephen Hawking

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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Personality Character Residency Responsibility
Theodore Roosevelt

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Opportunities Time
Henry Ford

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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

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Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Appreciation Curiosity Excitement Wisdom
Thomas Moore

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
People Power Knowledge
James Madison

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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
World Mind
Hermann Hesse

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard

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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Warning Caution Courage Experience
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.
Love Soul Imagination
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Questions
Janis Joplin

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Rest
Sigmund Freud

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Warning Character Recognition Understanding
Franklin P. Jones

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

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I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
Jim Parsons

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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Nothing
Socrates

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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Guts Caution Safety Security
Malcolm X

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'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.
Right Mystics & Mysticism
Luke Perry

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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Friendship Romance Teen Love Age
Thomas More

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Warning Challenges Facts Fear
Thomas Hobbes

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Advice Opinion Viewpoint Cleverness
Charles Kingsley

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Talent Teamwork
Michael Jordan

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I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
Respect
Sophia Bush

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Ability Perception Conscience Mankind
Thomas Hobbes

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Acceptance Advice Conduct People
John Greenleaf Whittier

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Men Battles Caution Thinking
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.
Dolly Parton

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I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
Information
Edward Snowden

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If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.
People
Justin Trudeau

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Opinion Viewpoint Communication Results
Thomas Hobbes

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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Good Law
Julian Assange

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Inspiration Birds Practice Commitment
Salvador Dali

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Life Universe
Bill Watterson

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Funny Love Affection Zeal
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Life Busy Sanity Education
Thomas More

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Greatness
Blaise Pascal

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Plutarch

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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Wars Police
Barack Obama

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Imagination Knowledge
Albert Einstein

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It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
Security
Merrick Garland

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It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.
Family
Jason Bateman

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Psychosis Science
Edgar Allan Poe

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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Funny Conduct Character Contribution
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Words
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Motivation Groundwork Present Commitment
Malcolm X

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Meaningful Advice Attitude Plants
John Greenleaf Whittier

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Good Attitude People Personality
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Attitude Personality Character Reason
Adolf Hitler

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Time
Ernest Hemingway

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Agatha Christie

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However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
Reputation Value Virtues Humanity
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.
Stan Lee

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Mind
Albert Camus

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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
People
Garrison Keillor

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It's the African-American experience. You've got to wear different masks. When you're in the hood, if you stand out, you get picked on for being weak. Sometimes you have to hide your intelligence. In front of your boys, you might put on a bit of bravado, be a little bit tougher.
Experience
Michael B. Jordan

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Sanity Senses Differences Thinking
Salvador Dali

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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
Greatness
William Gibson

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Memory
Lewis Carroll

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Good
Michel de Montaigne

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Character Cleverness Reality Reason
Helen Rowland

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Mathematics
Christopher Columbus

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I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.
Grace
Elizabeth Debicki

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

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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine

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

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With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.
Water Work
Elon Musk

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Best Business Government
Ronald Reagan

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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Talent
J. K. Rowling

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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.
Community Hurt
Lindsey Graham

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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
David Letterman

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We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use.
Police
Dianne Feinstein

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I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.
Courage Strength Time
Elisabeth Moss

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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Mystics & Mysticism
Carl Jung

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You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
World
Edward Snowden

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Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
Family Children
Lord Mountbatten

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Psychosis Genius Greatness
Aristotle

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Intelligence is not a moral category.
Tucker Carlson

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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
People Doctor
Marcel Proust

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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
Football
Jose Mourinho

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius
Charles Bukowski

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Imagination Love
H. L. Mencken

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Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
People
Curtis Jackson

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Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
Good Beauty
Monica Bellucci

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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Art
Pablo Picasso

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Action
Napolean Hill

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

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
World
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
People
Alec Baldwin

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Character
Quentin Crisp

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My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.
People Creativity Heart
Matt Bomer

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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Dress
Tiger Woods

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