Quotes About Intelligence

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The essential in Frida is a sick woman, intelligent, with a great passion for life beyond her sickness.

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.

The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.

Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of seeing the world around them.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.