Intelligence Quotes
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
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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.
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
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The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.
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I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
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Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
