Quotes about Intelligence
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
- Charles Kettering
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
- John F. Kennedy
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
- Albert Einstein
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
- Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
- JM Coetzee
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
- Aesop
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
- Helen Keller
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
- Etienne Gilson
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.
- Barack Obama
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
- E Stanley Jones