Intelligence & Acumen Quotes

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.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

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

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

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

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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

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

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

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

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.

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

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

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.