Intelligence quotes

“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.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.” Wayne Dyer

“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” Bertrand Russell

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” Bertrand Russell

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.” Bertrand Russell

“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.” David Bowie

“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.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.” John Steinbeck

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” Michael Jordan

“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.” Virginia Woolf

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.” Ambrose Bierce

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.” Samuel Beckett

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” Napoleon Hill

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” Henry Louis Mencken