Quotes About Intelligence

I don't worry about artificial intelligence. I worry about artificial stupidity.

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

There is nothing wrong with the United States--or the world at large--that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).

A smart man learns from his

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

Putin had been a KGB foreign intelligence officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he was generally considered untrustworthy and immoral by the intelligence community.

While we were standing by, Clinton was doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, which he reputedly could dispatch in a matter of minutes. He asked me about a clue—a three-letter word starting with some letter or other. I had no idea, so I asked my son Jamie. ¶ 'Who's so stupid they don't know that?' Jamie retorted in a voice that could be heard at the other end of the phone. ¶ 'The President of the United States,' I said.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

And so we argued, and so we disagree - all dedicated, intelligent men, disagreeing and fighting about the future of their country, and of mankind

And so we argued, and so we disagreed - all dedicated, intelligent men, disagreeing and fighting about the future of their country, and of mankind

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and sincerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart.

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

In judging of the rich, two things should be considered: How did they get it, and what are they doing with it? Was it honestly acquired? Is it being used for the benefit of mankind? When people become really intelligent, when the brain is really developed, no human being will give his life to the acquisition of what he does not need or what he cannot intelligently use.

Is it possible to imagine an infinite intelligence dwelling for an eternity in infinite nothing?

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

Experience had taught Strike that there was a certain type of woman to whom he was unusually attractive. Their common characteristics were intelligence and the flickering intensity of badly wired lamps.

She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

Erudite, for a woman who confuses "you're" and "your" and goes in for random capitalisation.' 'We can't all be literary geniuses,' said Robin reproachfully. 'Thank Christ for that, from all I'm hearing about them.

Erudite, for a woman who confuses "you're" and "your" and goes in for random capitalisation.' 'We