Quotes About Intelligence

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.