Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes

You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him.

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.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the society of kings.

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

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they’re really stupid […]

The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its attainments, and blesses the detector of errors as a benefactor and […]

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn’t need intelligence, a man in my job doesn’t need to much of it either.