Citations:intelligence

Noun: capacity of mind
1838 - Sidney Rigdon, Oration Delivered by Mr. S. Rigdon on the 4th of July at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri
 * Next to the worship of our God, we esteem the education of our children and of the rising generation. For what is wealth without society, or society without intelligence. And how is intelligence to be obtained?—by education. It is that which forms the youthful mind: it is that alone, which renders society agreeable, and adds interest and importance, to the worship of God. What is religion without intelligence?—an empty sound. Intelligence is the root, from which all true enjoyments flow. Intelligence is religion, and religion is intelligence, if it is any thing. Take intelligence from it, and what is left? A name—a sound without meaning. If a person desires to be truly pious in the sight of God, he must be purely intelligent. Piety without intelligence, is fanatacism, and devotion without understanding, is enthusiasm.


 * 1842 - Honoré de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage, The Girl with the Golden Eyes
 * And what could one think of a woman, having no lover, who should have known how to resist a young man armed with beauty which is the intelligence of the body, with intelligence which is a grace of the soul, armed with moral force and fortune, which are the only two real powers?


 * 1892 - James Sulley, "Is Man the Only Reasoner?" Popular Science, February 1892
 * The first naive view of the animal mind entertained by the savage and the child is a respectful one, and may perhaps be roughly summed up in the formula in which a little boy once set forth his estimate of equine intelligence: "All horses know some things that people don't know, and some horses know more things than a great many people."

Noun: information about enemy or hostile activities

 * 1887 - Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
 * The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered.