Quotes About Intelligence

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

Intelligence is not a science.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The heart is the first feature of working minds.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

In retrospect, the saddest moment of one's life would seem to be that in which one first became aware that sensibility must be protected by intelligence if it is to survive living. It is that realization that puts the bloodshed into adolescence. And the lack of that realization makes the rest of life a bloodshed.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

Jeder trug eine tiefe Sehnsucht nach Gesellschaft in sich, nach der Gesellschaft intelligenter Wesen, die keine Menschen waren.

Gli scienziati ritenevano che il limite inferiore delle dimensioni corporee per un essere intelligente fosse dieci centimetri, e quindi la possibilità di trovare un Aristotele che zampettava era praticamente pari a zero. Figuriamoci un Aristotele unicellulare.

Dr Samantha Crowe.

Actually, no. In The Abyss the alien creatures come from space. The film makes them out to be a nicer version of humans. They're supposed to have a moral message. The main difference, though, is that those aliens aren't interested in toppling us from our throne at the top of terrestrial evolution, which is what any intelligent species that had developed in parallel to us and that shared our planet would want to do.

For us to perceive intelligence, it has to fit within our behavioural framework.

Li wondered whether she should give the White House a call. Not that there was anything to report, but the President liked talking to her - he admired her intellect. That was the way things stood between them, and Li knew it, but she kept it to herself. It was better that way. She was one of only a handful of female American generals

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? Logically

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

limiting the CIA's ability to pursue covert operations, and eventually dismantling

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.