Quotes About Intelligence

El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los más fuertes. La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

Estaba segura de que debía ser un hombre feo, tal vez enfermo o contrahecho, porque le parecía imposible que una sensibilidad tan profunda y una inteligencia tan precisa se sumara un aspecto atrayente.

la fatuidad es privilegio de ignorantes; el sabio es humilde porque sabe cuán poco sabe

un ser extraordinariamente pequeño, casi calvo, arrugado y pálido, sin más signo de inteligencia humana que sus negros ojos relucientes, con una sabia expresión de ancianidad desde la cuna.

La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu, a la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

Justice! Is it just for everyone to have the same amount? The lazy the same as those who work? The foolish the same as the intelligent? Even animals don't live like that! It's not a matter of rich and poor, it's a matter of strong and weak.

I took the opportunity to tell her about you, a stupendous young man, sensible and of solid principles, handsome, hardworking, and intelligent. Etelvina, who was serving the pie, froze with the knife in the air and asked me who I was talking about.

Fortunately for Canada it is part of the so-called Five Eyes network, along with the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand. These nations are in fact so integrated that they effectively comprise a single colossal listening organization, the most powerful in history, with America in charge.

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A wise and an understanding heart.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.