Quotes About Intelligence

He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.

Intelligence has little to do with poetry. Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It's a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.

unique understanding

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

C'est drôle comme les gens qui se croient instruits éprouvent le besoin de faire chier le monde.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

o ponto de vista vale oitenta pontos de QI" —

point of view is worth 80 IQ points"—a

Jeff, um dia você entenderá que é mais difícil ser bom do que ser inteligente.

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind that clever

Knowledge is bigger than debate," I

Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Sometimes being able to read makes more questions than if you were stupid.

If a subordinate performs a task and the outcome is not what you expected, don't attack their intelligence or their character. Politely explain the deficiencies and offer an idea for a solution. Subordinates quickly lose respect for any leader who is "all problem and no solution.