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Definition of Intelligence
Intelligence

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

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

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

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Intelligence Quotations

Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Intelligence Translations

intelligence in Dutch is bevattingsvermogen, intelligentie
intelligence in Hungarian is intelligencia
intelligence in Italian is intelligenza
intelligence in Norwegian is etterretning, intelligens
intelligence in Spanish is inteligencia


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