Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

- John Ciardi

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.

- Dr Karl A Menninger

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

- Pablo Picasso

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

- Eugene Wilson

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The role of the intelligence-that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions-is merely to submit.

- Simone Weil

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

- Franz Grillparzer

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

- Aldous Huxley

'T is good-will makes intelligence.

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.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

- Pierre Simon De Laplace

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

- Lisa Alther

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

- John Michael Hayes

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

- Honoré De Balzac

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

- Rémy De Gourmont

... no writing is a waste of time,-no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.

- Brenda Ueland

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