Quotes About Intelligence

Eeeh, sono un fenomeno. In tutti i sensi, del resto. Lo so che è dura essere bello, intelligente e superdotato, ma qualcuno deve pur farlo

Infatti mi sono sempre chiesto come fai, a essere così miracolosamente immune dai travagli dell'intelligenza

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

As someone once said (and no, it wasn't Einstein), "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." Let us never confuse the two.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Many statements have been made by Ministers and Generals in various countries on the necessity for long periods of training before even an infantry soldier is ready for action. This is utter nonsense when applied to volunteers for guerilla warfare. After only one week of collective training, his Flying Column of intelligent and courageous fighters was fit to meet an equal number of soldiers from any regular army in the world, and hold its own in battle, if not in barrack-yard ceremonials

You can never overestimate the intelligence of the American public.

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy. Even

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.