Intelligence Quotes
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.
A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.
The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.
I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.
I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.
I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.
Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.
Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.