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Quotes About Intelligence

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
~ Filipp Golikov
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
~ James A. Baldwin
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.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
~ Jennifer Nettles
Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.
~ James Jeans
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
~ P. D. James
Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.
~ Catherine Ponder
Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.
~ Terry Pratchett
On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.
~ Robert S. Beecroft
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.
~ James Cash Penney
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
~ Lou Reed
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
~ Agnes Repplier
Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.
~ Timothy Findley
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.
~ George W. Bush
We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.
~ Epictetus
It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.
~ Carol Bartz
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.
~ Michael J. Gelb
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
~ Heraclitus
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.
~ Joe Biden
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.
~ Roger Kimball
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
~ Joe Whitney
The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.
~ Geoffrey Boycott