It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both
together to the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls.
Intelligence is not trying.
--Unknown
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a
[person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices
but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence.
--Albert Einstein
Superstition is religion that has grown incongruous with intelligence.
--John Tyndall (1820-1893)
Information Superhighway is really an acronym for
'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating,
Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems,
Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence,
Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.
--Keven Kwaku
Perfection does not exist.
To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence;
to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness
--Alfred de Musset
If a cat does something, we call it instinct;
if we do the same thing, for the same reason,
we call it intelligence.
--Will Cuppy
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
--Louis Wain
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.
One should, for example, be able to see that things
are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
So far as I can remember, there is not one word
in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
--Bertrand Russell
The voice of 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 Menninger
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