Quotes About Intelligence

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you

The Kealty administration had promised more "openness" and "transparency" in the clandestine CIA. Jack Junior's father had written an op-ed in The Washington Post that suggested, in a manner that was still respectful to the office of the presidency, that Ed Kealty might want to look up the word clandestine in the dictionary.

All men had their limitations. It was just that some were more dangerous than others. And while genius knew it had limits, idiocy was always unbounded.

Armada y sería una maldita tonta si no hubiera pensado que

It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn't have the brain market cornered.

government that had no secrets could not function.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. However, Leigh-Cheri and Bernard were occupied with the nuances of an intricate dance, so let's be generous and cut them some slack.)

You do not have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people –they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace

It takes a certain intelligence to love like that – softly, without props. But the world is such a showpiece, maybe that's why folks try to outdo it, put everything they feel onstage just to prove they can think up things too: handsome scary things like fights to the death, adultery, setting sheets afire. They fail of course. The world outdoes them every time.

facts can exist without human intelligence, but truth cannot.

When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas marketplaced, our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly.

This was the closest anybody in Iraq came to finding WMDs. Even though it was obvious to me and my staff that there was no way the vans could have produced biological weapons, a month after we got the photos, the CIA published a twenty-eight-page pamphlet insisting that was what they were for. …I was bewildered - Colin Powell

He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Pity he had few brains and very little style. She was wondering why no scientist had yet invented social skills in an injectable form when a sharp voice cut through her thoughts.

When people purposefully withhold meaning from one another, individually smart people can do collectively stupid things.