Intelligence Quotes

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.

He was not so much brain as earwax

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.