Intelligence Quotes by Jim Ramstad, Karan Patel, Mikko Hypponen, Humberto Maturana, Angela Merkel, A. A. Milne and many others.
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
My ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.
It’s high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.
Only love expands intelligence.В To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.
I think the political class in Berlin doesn’t need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they’re thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a massive new Defense Department, and later the creation of new civilian organizations with some defense functions, such as NASA and the Energy Department.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
If you don’t have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation’s immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it’s about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.
Be different-if you don’t have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that’s the challenge.
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We’ll tell you, you don’t have to drag it out of us.
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it’s a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at – indeed, great at.
It’s really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It’s really challenging.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
Wit is educated insolence.
I use a lot of different words for God – infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And ‘God’ is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It’s the great mystery.
Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.
There’s some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society’s winners and who gets to be society’s losers that don’t have to do with merit.
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn’t matter if it’s a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don’t necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI’s will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.
I don’t want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.
The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn’t do all that much collection of intelligence. It’s not a very good spy agency, but it’s good at running covert action.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don’t, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.
[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.
The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.
I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.
We’ve done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it’s GRU, which is Russia’s military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it’s FSB, the Russian federal security service.
I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn’t the best litmus test.
Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It’s another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.
Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I’m going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
I like the cover,” he said. “Don’t Panic. It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
You are just your intelligence.
He must have been an incredibly good shot.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don’t know about.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one’s own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they’ve hidden their stash so well a cop won’t find it. They’re always wrong.
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man’s inner destiny sets it.
I am very confident based on all of the analysis that has been done – and, again, I don’t want to start getting into intelligence matters – that the Ukrainian government did not interfere in our election in 2016.
We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: “Do it yourself” is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,–mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
If you make something, it’s an artifact. It’s something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We’re turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
Well, the years start coming and they don’t stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn’t make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
People are smarter than you might think.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Every piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit gets you closer to the answer.
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of “knowingness”- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
If there’s an intellectual highway, there’s also an intellectual subway.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
Being a Southern person and a blonde, it’s not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
I don’t understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it’s a mystery.
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That’s reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
I think; therefore I am.
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man’s intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Tis good-will makes intelligence.
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our ‘personal assistant.’ They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‘singularity.’
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that’s useful to them.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don’t think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn’t struck by that.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 ‘is involved’ or not (whatever ‘is involved’ might mean).
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
I think what he’s – what he believes, and he may be correct, I don’t know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what’s going on in Iraq that we haven’t revealed to others.
I know from my own experience that there is much more to ‘intelligence’ than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person’s mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he’ll rise.
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.
Mystery is not profoundness.
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of ‘being there,’ any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn’t attacked us, it’s because he can’t or because we’ve defeated him.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Don’t try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
They’ll remember you if you’re the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It’s a measurement of one’s ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you’re rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.
When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
The best learners… often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of ‘The New York Times’ has in his whole head.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!
The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’
The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.
Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can’t be allowed to stand.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
Husbands, recognize your wife’s intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don’t be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
Genius is independent of situation.
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
Dr. Rice’s record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President’s decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
The cultivated person’s first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
When you don’t have an education, you have to use your brains.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it’s got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.
I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Intelligence is fragmentary and hard to discover, so it is by joining forces and sharing information with our allies that we maximise our ability to protect ourselves.
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Primitive does not mean stupid.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it’s not as predictable, when you don’t know what’s coming at you.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation’s intelligence community.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
You’ll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.
It’s good to remind intelligence producers and consumers alike about the need to ‘warn of emerging conditions, trends, threats and opportunities’ and the potential for discontinuities.
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it’s better.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
Trump’s alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America’s own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, forces us to face that the fundamental principles of our nation are under attack.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
You’re born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult – often impossible – for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking … the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.
Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems. And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.
Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Corruption and manipulation of the ICC by foreign intelligence services subvert the original mission and purpose of the ICC.
Intelligence is derived from two words
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I’d never bought the idea that you don’t lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I’ve never really made that much money.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
If I could read a book, I’d definitely read one of yours.
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data – the lowest cognitive form – has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.
They don’t tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.
Thought is more than a right – it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
I’ve long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets’ lives at risk.
Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.
As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
When you know better you do better.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
I don’t know how to depict intelligence.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.
The work is intense. You have to calculate a great deal very quickly which requires football intelligence and real concentration. Part of my role is to shuttle between the defense and the attacking lines to make sure that the ball circulates well and quickly.
Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling – a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it’s more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it’s more like social intelligence.
Knowledge is power.
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
I do not – I never believed it’s better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
The Germans certainly – the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.” [From a column dated November 17, 1928]
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children’s health.
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
One thought fills immensity.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
Data is going to be dynamic… and, combined with the performance of computing that allows for artificial intelligence to be applied, is going to bring all kinds of insights and additives to enhance everyday life.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
In computer science, we stand on each other’s feet.
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don’t, how you’ll handle a situation – whether you’ve got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
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.
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
There’s a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man’s life passes him by.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where … the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I’m really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.
Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn’t know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.
Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
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.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
My father ran London Films. He made films like ‘The Red Shoes,’ ‘The Third Man.’ And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ – not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won’t do much for you at all.
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Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
Filthy language is used by people who don’t have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Democracy is self-creating coherence.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
Lincoln’s stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it’s hard not to be anthropomorphic when you’re looking at a great ape – at any primate – but especially with gorillas. They’re just so magnificent.
Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn’t find them.
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Nothing marks a man’s character better than his attraction to intelligence.
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It’s an attitude of hunters; they’re observing the prey.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I’ve ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.
I want to exude strength and intelligence.
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.
I always felt the ‘X-Men,’ in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can’t do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
I wrote ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest…
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don’t know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, ‘I’ve got one question: What color is the red phone?’
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
Self-awareness is a trait – or maybe ‘practice’ is the more accurate way to put it – that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
When you’re six years old, the word ‘poo’ is the funniest word on God’s earth, but this insults my intelligence.
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.
What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness?
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.
Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman’s intelligence was a man’s deception.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Vladimir: I don’t understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can’t you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Advertising isn’t just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Here’s the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it’s very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people’s crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You’ve got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world’s giantest spy center.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
The color of truth is gray.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
AI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications.
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.
Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.
Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
You don’t have to be a genius when you’re surrounded by morons.
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
I think that animals aren’t less intelligent than humans, they’re just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million – they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it’s important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we’re doing.
When you talk to a human in 2035, you’ll be talking to someone that’s a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
What is it that really makes us, us? It’s our collective intelligence. It’s our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
We should never overestimate an audience’s culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It’s been seen as a confusing blend of God’s handiwork and the devil’s playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I’ll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don’t have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can’t obsess about it.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn’t get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake – a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.
The key thing about force protection is… if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you’re putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
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.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy.
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
There’s three things: there’s masculinity, there’s intelligence, there’s sensitivity. You’ve got to bring those three things to a leading man’s role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there’s a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They’re also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there’s an inner intelligence or logic.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual’s intelligence or morality.
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
