Quotes About Intelligence

Rumi habla de las personas que se fían tanto de la palabra escrita como si a veces fueran no más que asnos cargados de libros.

Quienquiera que le dé conocimiento a un tonto, lo pierde Y quien lo mantenga alejado de los merecedores, hace mal.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Sabiduría: algo que puedes aprender sin saberlo.

El hombre más estúpido que he conocido, tenía un dicho favorito. Era: "¿Qué te crees que soy: estúpido... o qué?

Many a "learned" man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him' (Hadrat Ahmed ibn Mahsud, the Sufi).

Muchos eruditos son destruidos por la ignorancia y por el conocimiento que no saben utilizar.

Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta un poco de avaricia.

La educación tiene sus problemas. Estos incluyen hacer más sabio al sabio y más tonto al tonto.

The imagination of the wise is truer than the knowledge of fools.

La imaginación del sabio es más verdadera que el conocimiento de los tontos.

You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.

The paradox of Hank Williams was that he was easygoing on the outside, yet tense and querulous inside. He pretended that he'd just ridden into town on a mule, yet had a lively intelligence combined with what Minnie Pearl described as a "woods-animal distrust" of anyone who appeared to have any more learning than he did.

During my career I've worked with intelligence agencies and experts of every kind, from a young lieutenant, battalion-level intelligence officer to all sixteen branches of the U.S. intelligence community. With rare exceptions, intelligence analysts do all they can to give you the information and facts you need to understand the enemy and the situation and come up with the best decision.

Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

It had only recently been discovered that dolphins could recognize themselves in a mirror, the only other animal besides a chimp to have such self-awareness.

the UFO phenomenon could be controlled by alien beings. "If it is," added the Major, "then the study of it doesn't belong in science. It belongs in Intelligence." Meaning counterespionage. And that, he pointed out, was his domain.

So Major Murphy was perhaps correct. This research project was beyond a simple scientific problem that was amenable to standard hypothesis-driven science. It involved hunting a very wily quarry. And NIDS constantly had to accept the possibility that any information acquired in this hunt was only the information that the intelligence (assuming that we were in fact dealing with an intelligence) wanted us to have.

if intelligent life from somewhere else had begun to explore the cosmos, it would do so by launching small smart probes that could report back over the vast interstellar distances. This strategy would lessen the obvious costs of organic beings having to make the arduous exploratory trip across interstellar space.

The program was transferred back to the CIA in 1995 and was then canceled after the public release of a controversial report that declared that remote viewing had little or no value as an intelligence tool. This conclusion was so inconsistent with the astounding results that have been documented over three decades that most people familiar with the capabilities of remote viewing speculate that the research program is ongoing, but as an even more secretive operation.

The military and intelligence communities have vast resources at their disposal. They undoubtedly possess technological capabilities that are far beyond anything that is known in the public sector. And in the past, they have certainly demonstrated a willingness to carry out psychological warfare exercises, disinformation campaigns, and surveillance programs against unwitting civilian populations, even when such programs are clearly illegal.

If a pair of pigeons alighted on a discarded newspaper page on a New York street, would they understand the content of the paper?

One's mind is their greatest asset.

Our greatest weapon is the mind.

The brightest of minds do not fear other bright minds.