Quotes About Intelligence

The core of his argument is that rationality should be distinguished from intelligence.

The stubbornness of an intelligent person is seen as likely to be justified and may actually evoke respect, but intelligence in an envious and stubborn person makes him more dangerous.

watercooler conversations that intelligently explore the lessons that can be learned from the past while resisting the lure of hindsight and the illusion of certainty.

good judgments depend on what you know, how well you think, and how you think.

La linguistica gli sembrava la scienza adatta per le persone che hanno la pedanteria necessaria per la matematica, ma non l'intelligenza. Per le persone che si inventano una propria logica, secondo il bisogno.

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I hope there is no God" passage, Nagel wrote that "[I] am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers." I, too, know a great number of very bright and knowledgeable people who are believers. It sometimes makes me wonder if the skeptics have it backward: maybe I am just not wise enough to be a believer.

La compassion demeure une voie d´accès à la compréhension, une forme supérieure d´intelligence.

In the West, military intelligence (MI) analysts have long followed a simple premise: Assess enemy capabilities, not intentions.

The U.S. collected information superbly and everywhere, from space to dirt. They tracked all kinds of events and things and people. For long-lead-time matters, like the order of battle for the Chinese fleet, that sufficed. For short-fuse needs, it got much, much more excruciating. Of the mass of data gathered, only a small percentage (50 percent? 10 percent? 5 percent?) ever got analyzed. Only a tiny fraction of that produced the specificity to allow action.

The MI folks could usually tell you the make, model, year, paint color, and license plate of the semitrailer truck that just ran over you.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Nous savions que si l'intelligence du texte est une rude et solitaire conquête de l'esprit, la blague stupide établit, elle, une connivence reposante qui ne se partage qu'entre amis de confiance. C'est avec nos intimes que nous échangeons les histoires les plus bêtes, façon de rendre un hommage implicite à la finesse de leur esprit. Avec les autres, on fait les malins, on déballe son savoir, on en installe, on séduit.

Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians of the temple, boasting of its wonders in the very words that slam shut it's doors: Reading matters! Reading matters!

In materia di esami e di assunzioni, - capire - significa capire quel che ci si aspetta da noi. Un testo - capito bene - è un testo intelligentemente negoziato.

En ocasiones un idiota puede decir algo genial y un genio decir una idiotez.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Wasn't it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?" "History's first intelligence failure," said Gabriel. "Imagine how things might have turned out for the Jewish people if Moses had chosen another plot of land.

Daniel Silva

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

When counterterrorism officers feel optimism, innocent people usually end up dead. - Gabriel Allon

Done properly (use of extreme violent methods), by trained professionals, placing physical and emotional stress on captured terrorists very often produces actionable intelligence that saves lives. - Gabriel Allon

And once, during an Oval Office meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to Washington, Trump divulged highly classified intelligence supplied by a close ally in the Middle East—intelligence that was so sensitive it was not shared widely within the US government.