To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

It is not easy for the courts to control the intelligence agencies. There has to be concerted and coordinated effort on part of the courts, the parliament, and the government.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.

Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.