Quotes About Intelligence

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

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.

Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

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.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

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.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.