Top Intelligence Quotes

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Intelligence Definition

(n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

(n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

(n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

(n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

(n.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

(n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude t...

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker, he continued, as though he had not heard her. We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, whi...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generati...

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day isn't running aw...

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

The ultimate purpose of our life is to be happy. We are born for happiness, we are going toward happiness, we like to live in happiness, and we like to vanish from this universe for eternal happiness.

To be happy, find the happiness inside you; there is no better thing that you can do.

It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

Find out what makes you happy and do it. If you are happy, you bring happiness for the world.

You are as happy as you chose to be. So chose to be happy.

The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy.