Quotes About Intelligence

They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans.

They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans. Their role is to cheer and fund their team and trash-talk whatever team is on the other side.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence -- providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.

Nature is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive. Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.

All war is based on deception.

Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.

All war is deception.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

This is how I want to be at the end of my life, white-haired, red-cheeked, with a radiant intelligence evident in clear bright eyes.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Certainly, dolphins have a laundry list of capabilities that qualify as magical. They can see with their hearing, deploying biological sonar to effectively produce X-ray vision: dolphins can literally see through objects.

And F. Scott Fitzgerald: The sign of a first-rate intelligence is to be able to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and not have your head explode, he said. Maybe not those words exactly, but something like that.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

Here's what we should be doing. We should be monitoring every mosque. We should be monitoring social media. We've got about three million Muslims in the United States.

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Sophie is so free-spirited, open-minded, and intelligent. She brings the sensuality. The soft connection. She can look people in the eye and make them feel something.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.