Quotes About Intelligence

Alexei Alexandrovich, in my opinion, is simply stupid. I say it in a whisper...Doesn't that make everything clear? Before, when I was told to find him intelligent, I kept searching and found myself stupid for not seeing his intelligence; but as soon as I say "He's stupid" in a whisper - everything becomes so clear, doesn't it?

Prostia vine din înv???tur?

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb... dumb! " "You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested. "No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb." "So how did he get a Ph.D.?" "Sitzfleisch, Mom." Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

We are concerned here with either real traitors or complete imbeciles. But imbecility, raised to this level, is equal to treason.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The knowledge of all things is possible

C'è sempre stato bisogno che l'uomo intelligente fosse il portabandiera di una ideologhia... L'uomo professionalmente libero, che non crede in nessuna ideologhia e invece si colloca di fronte alle cose con spirito critico, non ha fortuna.

L'italiano: ero piuttosto debole in italiano. Ma, come vede, non è poi stato un gran guaio: sono qui, procuratore della Repubblica...». «L'italiano non è l'italiano: è il ragionare» disse il professore. «Con meno italiano, lei sarebbe forse ancora più in alto».

Le malattie delle persone intelligenti per tre quarti provengono dalla loro intelligenza.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I've never had any reason to find them otherwise.

Hayvanlar?n kurumlara al?nmad???n? söylediÄŸini san?yordum. K?rk tane polis köpeÄŸi herhalde kesinlikle hayvand?r öyle deÄŸil mi?" "Polis köpekler asl?nda düzgün konuÅŸan hayvanlar deÄŸildir. Polis köpekleri, hayvan zihniyetinden yoksun sapk?n hayvanlard?r. Polisler insan m? ki polis köpekleri hayvan olsun?

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.