Quotes About Intelligence

He is intrigued by complex minds.

human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

In some ways it seems like the more intelligent i get the more aware i become of my own inherited doom

Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, said, "This war was launched without an imminent threat to our families…. Radical 'know it all' ideologues here in Washington bent facts, distorted intelligence, and perpetrated lies designed to mislead the American people into believing that a third-rate thug had a hand in the 9/11 tragedy and was soon to unleash a mushroom cloud.

Page had been suckered. Podobnyy was a Russian intelligence officer working for the SVR, Moscow's foreign intelligence service. He was part of a three-man spy ring that had been handed the assignment of gathering information related to potential U.S. sanctions against Russia, American efforts to develop alternative energy, and other economic topics.

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The White House Situation Room is not just a room. It is a complex of multiple spaces manned 24/7 by rotating teams of duty officers and communications specialists. Team members are on loan from intelligence agencies, the State Department, and the military services.

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

Intellect and Intelligence are close stablemates, however one is a hacker the other a thoroughbred

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we're all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!).

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Great minds," Eleanor Roosevelt said, "discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." How big is your mind?

To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1

Roddy outgunned Cunningham in the brain department. He hung

smarter, and no taller than

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty." —Abraham Lincoln, first Inaugural Address, March 4

intellect is only one facet of the mind, and that beyond it is a universal intelligence which is freely available to each of us. If we're willing to put down the book entitled My Mind, we can wander around the whole library and even access the thoughts of God.