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

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Alan Kay

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams

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

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

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

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
Condoleezza Rice

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

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas Kempis

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

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
Aldrich Ames