“He thought intelligence a function of the individual and that groups of persons were intelligent in inverse proportion to their size. Nations had the brains of an amoeba whereas a committee approached the condition of a trainable moron.”
— John Updike, in his story “Bech Swings”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” — Arthur C. Clarke
“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
— Pablo Picasso
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done”
— Linus Torvalds
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
— Bertolt Brecht
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
— Socrates
“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.” — George Scialabra
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
— Tao Te Ching
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