Intelligence - Quotes & Sayings
We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?
Erin GrayCollecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
Louis FreehI think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
Christiane Nusslein-VolhardIn mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
Christiane Nusslein-VolhardYes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
Richard M. HelmsThis also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
Richard M. HelmsThe people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
William Hedgcock WebsterThe Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
Ken LucasNothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
John Michael HayesI'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
Eion BaileyGod gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
James ClavellTo lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
David M. ShoupIf I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
Nicolas CagePeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre MauroisWe know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
Condoleezza RiceBirds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
John BurroughsFear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
John BurroughsWhat happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.
ShakiraOur personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.
Russell M. NelsonEven Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel CastroChinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
Fidel CastroI have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.
Michio KakuTo me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.
Michio KakuI was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
Garrison KeillorAs long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
Robert Green IngersollIntelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.
Robert Green IngersollRational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
Marcel DuchampI want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
Robert KiyosakiThe notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.
Yuval Noah HarariWhat's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?
Yuval Noah HarariSince the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.
Yuval Noah HarariAfter 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 IrvingOur bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.
Stanley A. McChrystalWe live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
Ken RobinsonIf little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom RobbinsThere is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh BillingsMany things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.
Angela DuckworthI think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
Angela DuckworthThe truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
Patrick LencioniIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry AdamsNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsThere is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry AdamsWhen I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel GolemanI came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
Marissa MayerI respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
Spike LeeThink about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.
Ginni RomettySo there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
Robert MuellerI think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.
Angela MerkelA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundThe woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette