Quotes About Intelligence

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I prefer intellect and charm.

If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

I haven't seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected.

Under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act, US intelligence agencies cannot engage in covert actions abroad without a presidential finding that these operations are important to US national security.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Politicians pretend not to be smart.

I'm not just a pretty face.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.