Quotes About Intelligence

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense.

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Our best line of defense, trying to keep this nation safe and secure, is an effective intelligence-gathering capability, with robust congressional oversight.

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

We only had one thing going for us: organic brains.

While artificially intelligent, they lacked the creativity, boldness, and sneakiness of the devious human mind.

How U.S forces conduct themselves after the battle might be as important in Fourth Generation war as how they fight the battle. What the USMC calls cultural intelligence is of vital importance in Fourth Generation war, and it must go down to the lowest rank. In Iraq, the Marines seem to be grasping this much better than the U.S. Army.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Sometimes I'm so clever that I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

There are no stupid questions except What's my name again?

As Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematical philosopher and Nobel laureate, famously lamented in an essay condemning the rise of Nazi Germany, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

M?drych ludzi jest du?o, du?o mniej od absolwentów wy?szych uczelni.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.

A truly intelligent person is not one who can simply spout words and numbers; it is someone who can react 'intelligently' to all the opportunities, simulations and problems provided by the environment. Real intelligence means engaging your brain with every aspect of life – you play sport with you brain; you relate to others brain-to-brain;