Quotes About Intelligence

brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Politics needs a certain mental ability," explained Ahmad Saati, the university's spokesman. "Very few women have this kind of mind." I

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

It requires no intelligence or education to pick up a submachinegun, point it, and pull the trigger, so terrorism, revolution, and conquest are easier routes to success for opportunistic leaders in backward areas than is the way of peaceful construction.

An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

Intelligent decision making entails knowing what tool to use for what problem.

The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands.

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

A beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them

Le moyen le plus sûr de cacher aux autres les limites de son savoir est de ne jamais les dépasser.

Avrà magari ragione il professor Weinberger a sperare che <> finisca per essere più intelligente di noi, ma la storia ideologica del XX secolo è purtroppo piena di esempi in cui individui e teorie <> hanno poi innescato conformismi, deprimenti in democrazia, tragici nei sistemi totalitari.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.