Intelligence

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Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn.

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• Intelligence is the road to insanity.
  • Alfred Kin

• 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.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • Will Cuppy

• Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
  • Steve Polyak

• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
  • Jeff Valdez

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

• Every true genius is bound to be naive.
  • Friedrich Schiller

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
  • Georg C. Lichtenberg

• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
  • Josh Billings

• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
  • E. B. White

• Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
  • George-Louis de Buffon

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

• I'm not very clever, but I am quite intelligent.
  • Dirk Bogarde

• 1. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
  2. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
  3. It's better to keep your mouth shut, and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt.
  • Mark Twain

• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
  • Arthur Schopenhauer

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

• I think the world is run by C students.
  • Al McGuire

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

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

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

• Most People are only as intelligent as the knowledge they deem socially acceptable.
  • Wayne Thompson

• My brain: it's my second favorite organ.
  • Woody Allen

• The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
  • Denis Dutton

• 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.
  • Aldous Huxley

• The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
  • Charles F. Kettering

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

• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
  • Marya Mannes

• 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 Fitzgerald

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

• There is nothing greater than the human mind, only through it people are able to travel on roads, which would otherwise be closed to them in their narrow realities.
  • Uwe H. Friese

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence is no substitute for natural stupidity.
  • Mrs Jeanie Walker-Campbell

• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
  • Robert Lynd

• A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
  • Joey Adams

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

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
  • Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues(1954) 15 Dec.1939

• 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.
  • From Mar. 1936 Esquire Magazine, "Handle With Care"

• Mad: adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
  • Ambrose Bierce Devil's Dictionary

• Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
  • Garden of Folly(1924), "The Perfect Salesman"

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