Quotes About Intelligence

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

Industry people do know when a PR movement plays out. The issue is that it is an insult to our intelligence when those who are doing the PR thing presume that we are not wiser.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Silence is the wit of fools.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

The more wit the less courage.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.