(1538 quotes found)
“The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations”
Andre Gide
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done”
Linus Torvalds
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink”
E. E. Cummings
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
Bertolt Brecht
“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
Abigail Adams
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.”
Lao Tzu
“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it”
Thomas Kempis