Famous Quotes
- A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
- Jose Bergamin on Intelligence
- A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
- Grover Cleveland on Intelligence
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow on Intelligence
- A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
- Barbara Walters on Intelligence
- A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
- George Saunders on Intelligence
- A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
- Jane Harman on Intelligence
- A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles Kettering on Intelligence
- A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
- Roy H. Williams on Intelligence
- A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve on Intelligence
- A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Intelligence
- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan Perlis on Intelligence
- According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
- Ferdinand Mount on Intelligence
- Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill on Intelligence
- Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
- Maurice Saatchi on Intelligence
- Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock on Intelligence
- Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
- David K. Shipler on Intelligence
- After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- Washington Irving on Intelligence
- Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on Intelligence
- All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Intelligence
- All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
- Mark Kennedy on Intelligence
- All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
- Willa Cather on Intelligence
- Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
- Wayne White on Intelligence
- Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.
- Matt Walsh on Intelligence
- Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
- Lena Horne on Intelligence
- Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
- Vernon A. Walters on Intelligence
- An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
- Joseph Pulitzer on Intelligence
- An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
- Spiro T. Agnew on Intelligence
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intelligence
- An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus on Intelligence
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter on Intelligence
- An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
- Ernest Hemingway on Intelligence
- An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
- Bryant H. McGill on Intelligence
- An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
- Kevin Kelly on Intelligence
- And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
- Frank Carlucci on Intelligence
- And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
- Louis Freeh on Intelligence
- And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen on Intelligence
- 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.
- Bobby Ray Inman on Intelligence
- Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein on Intelligence
- Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Intelligence
- Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
- Giorgio Vasari on Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
- Godfried Danneels on Intelligence
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
- Kelly Ayotte on Intelligence
- As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
- John O. Brennan on Intelligence
- As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
- Charles Foster Bass on Intelligence
- As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
- George Tenet on Intelligence
- As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
- Catharine Beecher on Intelligence
- As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.
- Susan Rice on Intelligence
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Alan Alda on Intelligence
- Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Intelligence
- Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
- Julius Charles Hare on Intelligence
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