I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.”
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
“Intelligence is suffocated by things such as cowardice and diffidence.”
“Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.”
“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
“Intelligence is the ability to decide what’s important and doing it.”
“Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.”
“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems”
“Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.”
“Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!”
“Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.”
“Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.”
Source: Education and the Significance of Life
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”
“Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”
Source: Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on Its Meaning, Origins and Applications
“Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.”
“Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.”
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.”
“Intelligence is the only moral guide.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Intelligence is the seeing of what is.”
Source: The only revolution
“Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?”
“Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.”
“Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac”
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
[Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]”
“Intelligence is to provide the facts to us. The facts will usually take you to the truth. And then, when we get the truth, we have got to make the decisions and do what's best for this country.”
“Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.”
“Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.”
“Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.”
“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”
“Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.”
Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
“Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”
“Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.”
“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.”
“Intelligence makes you capable, kindness makes you human.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Intelligence makes you smug, understanding makes you humble.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.”
“Intelligence multiplies when fields collide in one brain.”
“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”
“Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.”
“Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.”
“Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.”
“Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two decades, history proclaimed in large bloody letters that ‘Kilroy woz ‘ere.”
Source: Dead Beckoning