Quotes About Intelligence

She's very bright. Really very bright. I wouldn't be surprised if she was Mensa level.

Believe me, when my 'personal endowments' are being discussed, I always pay attention." ~ Cam Rohan

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?

Steve Van Zandt is a very intelligent, smart guy. He's a historian, he knows a lot about rock n' roll, a lot about music.

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.

Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.

Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can't be allowed to stand.

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.

The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.