Quotes About Intelligence

I don't believe that. You're intelligent, but lazy.

un autor que no ve nada malo en la sociedad en la que vive quizá no sea tomado en serio. Es más inteligente incluir una pizca de crítica, aunque solo sea por

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar… pero un presidente debe tenerlo

Saber escutar pessoas inteligentes que discordam das suas opiniões é um talento rato, mas que um presidente deveria ter.

No doubt a serious spy would pretend to have no interest in politics, or even to be a Republican.

Când ai de-a face cu un om mândru, trebuie s? È™tii c? pentru el orgoliul conteaz? mai mult decât mintea.

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

people always credit Prime Ministers with more brains than they've got.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

Secret intelligence from Berlin was of small value to the conquering Soviets. It was no longer worth the risk. The spies had burned their codebooks and hidden their radio transmitters in the rubble of bombed buildings. They had agreed never to speak of their work. They had been brave, they had shortened the war, and they had saved lives, but it was too much to expect the defeated German people to see things that way. Their courage would remain forever secret.

people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit, and intelligence.

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries. Correctly understood, it is therefore liberating, for it points beyond boundaries altogether. We suffer, then, not because we are sick, but because intelligent insight is emerging.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

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.