Intelligence Quotes

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

Intelligence is ten million rules.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.