Intelligence Quotes

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Education is understanding relationships.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.