Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
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.
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
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.
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.