Quotes About Intelligence

Intelligence, intelligence, intelligence. Keep it up, America, keep telling your youth that mud and danger are fit only for intellectual pigs. Keep on saying that only the stupid are fit to sacrifice, that America must be defended by the low-brow and enjoyed by the high-brow. Keep vaunting head over heart, and soon the head will arrive at the complete folly of any kind of fight and meekly surrender the treasure to the first bandit with enough heart to demand it.

Keep on saying that only the stupid are fit to sacrifice, that America must be defended by the low-brow and enjoyed by the high-brow.

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

In the privacy of their offices, members of Congress could be calm, thoughtful, and sometimes insightful and intelligent in discussing issues. But when they went into an open hearing, and the little red light went on atop a television camera, it had the effect of a full moon on a werewolf. Many would posture and preach, with long lectures and harshly critical language; some become raving lunatics.

I don't see how people go on living as stupid as some of them are.

Show, don't tell" means respect the intelligence and sensitivity of your audience.

I've seen this play out over and over in my life: When emotion goes up, intelligence goes down.

Albert Einstein es: "Los espíritus grandes a menudo han encontrado una oposición violenta por parte de mentes mediocres.

An intelligent adult often feels it is demeaning to pay attention to simplistic definitions.

Be smart and you won't be pushed around as much.

As Prigogine summarized, "Stress is the way intelligence grows." Or as rich dad would say, "Stay with the process.

Una persona inteligente contrata a gente más inteligente que ella.

I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing, and law.

Financial intelligence is simply having more options, figuring out ways to create opportunities or altering situations to work in your favor.

Financial intelligence is simply having more options.

This was a simple example of how money is invented, created, and protected using financial intelligence.

Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that do what we do. Machines that dig, sow, and reap. Machines that kill and machines that prolong life. Machines that calculate, and, before long, machines who think.

At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

What would you do if you were me? said Solly. What would I do in your place? No, no; you'd do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?