Quotes About Intelligence

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

For all of you out there who don't know what 'ignoramus' is, it's an ignorant lawyer.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.

'The Imitation Game' is a very British film.

My height is immaterial; it's my heart and mind which count.

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

When I brought my medical school friends home, Dad used to tell us that we didn't know anything about the world. He started giving me impromptu quizzes about history and current events. I quite liked that.

In my opinion, a woman's body is not her only asset.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.

La prima: mai scegliere l'umorismo se non siamo certi di saperlo maneggiare. L'ironia è la sorella laica della misericordia; il sarcasmo, il fratello antipatico dell'intelligenza.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

The single difference between the theory I propose and the ideas current in modern astrophysics is that I assume that an infinite conscious intelligence preexists. You cannot get away from the preexistence of something, and whether that is an ensemble of physical laws generating infinite random universes or an infinite conscious intelligence is something present-day science cannot resolve, and indeed one view is not more rational than the other. One

It will, ultimately, become all that it can be; it will fulfill its potential and thereby enrich God. Every experience of every consciousness will return to the infinite intelligence from which it sprang, but transformed by having lived in and experienced the universe.

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.