Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

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.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.