Intelligence Quotes

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.

It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A smart man isn't necessarily one who knows all the answers, but knows where to find them.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences at the conference table, that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs before they abolish us. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.

The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others. For nothing enriches the world more than kindness. It makes mysterious things clear, difficult things easy, and dull things cheerful.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

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.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.