Quotes About Intelligence

A mole is a deep penetration agent so called because he burrows deep into the fabric of Western imperialism.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

to discover that the moon has something on it and it seems to be intelligently controlled.  When we were in our infancy of development

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free : for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law:

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

I really believe that our stories make us who we are. I don't think people are born as empty shells. They already have the makings of a personality and they have intelligence. But from the moment they're born and maybe before that they start accumulating stories and it's those stories that have the biggest effect on them.

So, am I a genius?

Why, man, we are all philosophical monarchs Or natural fools.

Unfortunately, though, even in our own time, the stigma that can attach to the cleverest person in the room sometimes intensifies if that person happens to be a woman. To imagine that Fuller could conduct herself as she did and never run afoul of gender prejudice is fanciful. To suppose that such biases were alone responsible for her troubles is equally so.

There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.

We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.

That's one thing can't be bought is brains. Only God can give brains. And they don't come off the wind either.

There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.

I've been smart my whole life, Angus says. And I guess I was angry that I couldn't find a way to heal myself.

As if they didn't really know that earthly life is only a journey between being born into the body and leaving it at death, whereas the self is the same in every living creature. Only the body can have a 'lineage'. The level on which a person stands is determined only by the level of his own intelligence.

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.