Quotes About Intelligence

Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy.

I beg your pardon. I didn't know that dragons were so intelligent." A grim smile twisted his lips. "First Ra'zac and magicians, now dwarves, Riders, and talking dragons. It seems the whole world has gone mad.

intelligence is a combination of mental ability and the accumulated knowledge that arises from that ability.

Morgenthau knew that a handful of Long's aides at State had for years systematically denied available U.S. visas to refugee Jews, suppressed intelligence about Hitler's Holocaust, and undermined efforts to establish a commission to document Nazi atrocities. Recently he had learned that Long's group at State had sabotaged a deal that could have purchased survival for 70,000 Romanian Jews for a mere $170,000 in Romanian currency.37

The secrecy that surrounds any CIA operation makes complete documentation impossible, but the fragmentary information that is now available permits identification of several important examples.

Substantial evidence indicates that the Army's central repository for intelligence records has intentionally destroyed its files on prominent Nazis closely associated with U.S. intelligence during the early Cold War when their names surfaced in the media.

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finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time.

When emotional intelligence was first discovered, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the source of success—IQ. Scientists

people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% percent of the time.

Obtuseness was its own defense

The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new geographies, and to keep that world's details far from the public record. The black world was supercharged with newfound life and purpose.

The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American economy.

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

suppose you were an idiot

It's becoming increasingly clear that mechanized intelligence can solve a rapidly expanding repertoire of problems.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.

Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.